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JOHN  FOSTER 

THE  EARLIEST  AMERICAN  ENGRAVER 

AND 

THE  FIRST  BOSTON  PRINTER 

BY 

SAMUEL  ABBOTT  GREEN 


Pufcli'sfjeo  bg  &Jje  flassacfjnsetts  historical  ^octets 
at  tfre  Cfjara,*  of  tlje  TOaUrgton  JFtmo,  No.  2 


BOSTON 

1909 


THE  UNIVERSITY  PRESS,  CAMBRIDGE,  U.S.A. 


CONTENTS 


Page 

List  of  Illustrations   v 

Foster  as  an  Engraver   i 

Foster  as  a  Printer   21 

Elegies  on  Foster   31 

Foster's  Attainments   43 

Bibliographical  List  of  Titles  printed  by  Foster  ....  55 

Titles  probably  printed  by  Foster   125 

Book  once  belonging  to  the  Foster  Family   135 

Engravings  by  Foster  .....    e    e    .  137 

List  of  Shortened  Titles  printed  by  Foster               „    .    .  139 

Index   143 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 

Page 


Portraits  of  Richard  Mather   n 

Divine  Examples  of  Gods  Severe  Judgments   ......  14 

Hubbard's  Map  of  New  England.  —  "Wine  Hills  99     ...  17 

Hubbard's  Map  of  New  England.  —  "White  Hills"  ...  17 

Foster's  Epitaph   49 

Foster's  Signature   51 

Foster's  Almanack  of  1675   59 

Roger  Williams's  "Answer  to  a  Letter,"  1677   70 

Foster's  Almanack  of  1678   85 

Foster's  Almanack  of  1680   109 

"Copy  of  The  Church-Covenants,"  Salem,  1680     .    ...  113 

Foster's  Almanack  of  168 i   121 

William  Dyer's  "  Christs  Famous  Titles,"  1669   136 


FOSTER  AS  AN  ENGRAVER 


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FOSTER  AS  AN  ENGRAVER 


JOHN  FOSTER  was  the  earliest  engraver  in  what  is 
now  the  United  States,  and  as  the  pioneer  in  his  art 
he  deserves  a  place  in  biographical  literature.  The 
known  facts  which  make  up  his  life  are  both  few  and 
scanty ;  and  for  that  reason  it  is  hard  to  write  a  sketch 
that  would  be  worthy  of  the  man.  He  lived  at  a  period 
of  time  when  no  special  encouragement  was  ever  given  to 
matters  unless  in  their  character  they  were  religious  or 
utilitarian ;  and  while  his  work  was  not  in  a  strict  sense 
artistic,  he  followed  the  occupation  in  part  as  a  slender 
means  of  livelihood.  In  my  researches  I  have  been  able 
to  pick  up  only  the  crumbs  that  lie  scattered  about  under 
the  table,  though  I  hope  that  the  time  will  come  when 
more  light  may  be  thrown  on  his  work,  and  when  other 
facts  may  be  found  which  bear  on  his  life.  He  had  the 
happy  faculty  of  adapting  himself  to  existing  circum- 
stances and  doing  fairly  well  whatever  he  was  called  on 
to  do.  He  lived  at  a  time  when  the  various  vocations 
of  life  had  not  been  specialized,  as  now;  and  it  was  not 
uncommon  then  for  a  man  to  be  a  farmer  or  an  innkeeper 
or  anything  else,  if  he  could  turn  an  honest  penny  by 
the  calling.    If  he  were  a  graduate  of  Harvard,  he  was 


4  JOHN  FOSTER 

pretty  sure  to  be  a  preacher  or  a  teacher.  In  the  early 
days  of  the  Colony  there  was  but  little  time  to  cultivate 
the  fine  arts,  and  but  slender  means  in  the  community 
to  encourage  the  taste.  The  world  at  large  is  always 
interested  in  men  who  tread  new  paths  and  blaze  the 
way  for  others  to  follow.  A  pioneer  in  any  useful  walk 
of  life  is  sure  to  attract  attention  at  some  period,  and 
deserves  a  place  in  the  list  of  public  benefactors. 

John  Foster  was  a  native  of  Dorchester,  born  in  that 
part  of  the  town  which,  more  than  a  century  ago,  be- 
came South  Boston,  and  he  graduated  at  Harvard  College 
in  the  Class  of  1667.  He  was  born  in  1648,  and  was 
baptized  by  Richard  Mather,  the  minister  of  the  town, 
on  December  10  of  that  year.  The  exact  date  of  his 
birth  is  not  recorded,  but  probably  he  was  very  young 
when,  according  to  the  religious  custom  of  that  period, 
he  received  the  rite  of  baptism.  He  was  the  second  son 
and  fourth  child  of  Hopestill  and  Mary  (Bates)  Foster. 
His  father  was  a  man  of  some  substance,  having  been  a- 
brewer  by  trade,  a  member  of  the  General  Court,  and 
a  captain  in  the  militia;  and  his  mother  belonged  to  an 
equally  good  family.  When  her  father  (James  Bates) 
sailed  from  England,  coming  to  this  country  in  April, 
1635,  in  the  list  of  passengers  he  had  the  title  of  "Mr." 
prefixed  to  his  name,  which  at  that  time  meant  much. 
For  several  years  he  was  a  selectman  of  Dorchester,  and 
in  1 64 1  he  was  a  member  of  the  General  Court  from 
Hingham. 


AS  AN  ENGRAVER  5 

In  the  early  history  of  Harvard  College  the  names  of 
the  students  were  placed  in  the  catalogue  according  to 
the  social  rank  of  their  families,  and  not  alphabetically; 
and  by  this  rule  Foster's  name  appears  third  in  a  class 
of  seven  members.  The  custom  of  thus  arranging  the 
names  according  to  family  distinction  was  not  given  up 
until  the  year  1773.  Nothing  is  known  concerning  his 
career  in  college.  The  nearest  approach  to  it  is  a  faint 
echo  found  in  a  fragment  —  a  single  leaf — of  a  Monitor's 
Bill,  kept  at  some  period  between  1664  and  1666,  which 
relates  to  twenty-three  students.  In  this  list  his  name 
appears,  and  for  punctuality  he  is  far  above  the  average, 
which  fact  seems  to  show  that  he  was  a  young  man  of 
regular  habits.  An  interesting  account  of  this  leaf  is  given 
by  Professor  Franklin  B.  Dexter,  of  Yale,  in  the  Proceed- 
ings (X.  403-408)  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society 
for  December,  1868. 

Foster  began  to  teach  school  in  his  native  town, 
probably  in  October,  1669,  two  years  after  his  graduation 
from  college,  at  an  annual  salary  of  twenty-five  pounds. 
It  was  "  granted  as  a  liberty  to  ye  Master,  if  he  see  it 
meete,  for  to  go  once  in  a  fortnight  to  a  lecture."  The 
allusion  here  is  to  one  of  the  regular  Thursday  lectures, 
a  series  by  Boston  ministers,  which  began  in  the  early 
days  of  the  Colony,  as  shown  with  some  repetition  in 
the  reprint  on  page  27.  In  1670  Foster's  salary  was 
thirty  pounds.  On  December  23,  1672,  it  was  agreed 
that  he  "  shall  teach  such  lattin  schollars  as  shall  Come 


6  JOHN  FOSTER 

to  his  father's  hous  one  wholl  yeer  next  ensueing  from  the 
first  of  January  next,  and  to  instruct  and  give  out  Coppies 
to  such  as  come  to  him  to  learne  to  writte  ...  for 
his  paines  to  haue  £10"  In  1674  his  "  recompence " 
for  teaching  grammar  scholars  in  English,  Latin,  and 
writing,  "at  ye  school-house/'  was  thirty  pounds. 

It  has  long  been  known  that  he  was  the  first  printer 
in  Boston,  where  he  set  up  a  press  in  the  early  part  of 
1675,  though  only  two  of  his  imprints  dated  that  year 
have  come  down  to  the  present  day.  It  has  been 
known  also  that  he  was  an  early  engraver,  but  hitherto 
it  has  been  supposed  that  he  was  first  a  printer,  and 
then  afterward  that  he  drifted  into  the  art  of  engraving 
as  akin  to  "  the  art  preservative  of  all  arts."  In  recent 
years  much  light  has  been  thrown  upon  this  particular 
point ;  and  it  is  now  a  settled  fact  that  he  was  cutting 
in  wood  for  the  Apostle  Eliot  as  early  as  1 67 1 ,  while 
teaching  school  at  Dorchester.  The  earlier  occupation 
crops  out  in  a  letter  dated  at  Roxbury,  September  4, 
1 67 1,  which  was  written  by  John  Eliot  to  the  Com- 
missioners of  the  United  Colonies,  then  sitting  in  Bos- 
ton, wherein  he  says :  — 

Further  I  doe  prsent  you  v^h  or  Indian  A.  B.  C. 
&  or  Indian  Dialog8  wlh  a  request  yl  you  would  pay 
Printers  work  an  ingenuous  young  schollar  (Sr  Foster) 
did  cut,  in  wood,  the  Scheame,  for  wch  work  I  request 
04:00:00  y*  you  would  pay  him.  I  think  him  worthy  of  3  or 
4  or  511  but  I  leave  it  to  your  wisdoms  (p.  46). 


AS  AN  ENGRAVER  7 

The  letter  is  given  in  full  on  pages  43-47  of  "  Some 
Correspondence  between  the  Governors  and  Treasurers  of 
the  New  England  Company  in  London  and  the  Commis- 
sioners of  the  United  Colonies  in  America  the  Missionaries 
of  the  Company  and  others  between  the  years  1657 
and  171 2  to  which  are  added  the  Journals  of  the  Rev. 
Experience  Mayhew  in  171 3  and  171 4"  (London,  1896, 
privately  printed).  In  his  "  Biographical  Sketches  of 
Graduates  of  Harvard  University,"  Mr.  Sibley  says:  "Fre- 
quently, if  not  generally,  graduates  continued  their  studies 
at  the  College  after  they  had  taken  their  first  degrees, 
being  called  Sirs  till  they  took  their  second  degrees  as 
Masters  of  Arts"  (I.  17,  note).  This  statement  explains 
the  title  given  by  Eliot  to  Foster,  though,  according  to 
the  Quinquennial  Catalogue  of  the  College,  he  never  took 
his  second  degree. 

At  the  date  of  Eliot's  letter  Foster  had  been  out  of 
college  four  years,  and  already  had  had  some  little  expe- 
rience as  an  engraver,  certainly  enough  to  be  employed  to 
"  cut,  in  wood,  the  Scheame."  While  this  expression  is 
somewhat  blind,  and  I  do  not  fully  understand  the  mean- 
ing, it  evidently  refers  to  some  sort  of  engraver's  work. 
Perhaps  it  was  a  small  broadside  or  poster,  with  the  letters 
of  the  alphabet  cut  in  large  blocks,  so  that  little  children 
more  easily  could  learn  the  characters.  The  "  Indian 
Dialog55,"  mentioned  in  the  same  sentence,  was  printed  at 
Cambridge  in  the  year  1671,  probably  by  Marmaduke 
Johnson.    Apparently  there  is  nothing  in  this  book  with 


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which  Foster's  "  Scheame  "  could  be  connected,  so  that  the 
expression  evidently  applied  to  the  "A.  B.  C."  publication. 

At  this  period  Foster  was  living  at  Dorchester,  where 
he  was  engaged  in  teaching  a  grammar  school.  Presum- 
ably as  a  young  man  he  had  a  natural  gift  of  drawing 
or  sketching,  and  a  knack  of  carving  wood  which  stood 
him  in  good  stead  when  earning  his  living  after  gradu- 
ation from  college.  Without  doubt  he  was  a  self-taught 
artist ;  and,  while  teaching  was  his  vocation,  he  took 
up  engraving  as  an  avocation  which  noway  interfered 
with  his  regular  duties  as  a  teacher.  A  clever  young  man 
as  he  was,  probably  he  received  from  various  sources  sug- 
gestions in  regard  to  the  art.  Mr.  Savage,  in  his  Genea- 
logical Dictionary  (I.  287),  mentions  Edward  Budd,  a 
"  carver,"  as  living  in  Boston  during  this  period,  though 
none  of  his  handicraft  has  come  down  to  the  present 
time.  He  may  have  given  Foster  a  few  hints  in  regard 
to  engraving  or  cutting  in  wood.  In  his  will  Foster 
speaks  of  his  "  carueing  tools "  and  of  his  "  cuts  and 
coolers  [colors], "  showing  that  carving  and  engraving 
were  allied  occupations.  In  the  Century  Dictionary  one 
of  the  definitions  of  the  word  "carve"  is  to  engrave. 
It  is  not  at  all  likely  that  this  hobby  clashed  in  any 
way  with  his  regular  calling,  —  it  was  simply  a  by- 
product of  his  brain. 

Foster's  family  attended  Richard  Mather's  church  in 
Dorchester,  where  John  was  baptized,  and  there  must  have 
been  a  certain  intimacy  between  the  members  of  his  family 


AS  AN  ENGRAVER  9 

and  the  aged  minister,  who  died  on  April  22,  1669.  For 
more  than  a  century  there  has  been  in  the  possession  of  the 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society  an  engraved  portrait  which 
bears  under  it  the  printed  legend  "  Mr.  Richard  Mather." 
It  is  of  the  rudest  sort,  showing  a  half-length  figure  of  an 
old  man,  and  was  given  to  the  Society  on  January  27, 
1807,  by  Arthur  Maynard  Walter,  a  descendant  of  the 
Puritan  minister.  The  cut  is  about  five  inches  by  six  in 
size,  not  including  the  name  underneath,  and  represents 
Mather  holding  a  pair  of  very  small  eye-glasses  in  his  right 
hand  and  an  open  book  in  his  left.  The  engraving  is  cut 
on  wood,  apparently  on  the  flat  side  of  a  board,  as  the 
grain  of  the  wood  can  be  detected  in  the  impression. 
The  block  was  in  two  pieces  ;  and  the  head  and  shoulders 
forming  the  upper  part,  being  too  narrow  for  the  lower 
part,  did  not  fit  together  by  nearly  a  quarter  of  an  inch. 
A  similar  engraving,  in  which  the  two  parts  fit,  is  owned 
by  the  American  Antiquarian  Society  at  Worcester. 
Evidently  this  is  a  later  impression  from  the  same  block, 
as  the  two  parts  fit ;  and  furthermore  the  left  arm  has 
been  considerably  pared  off. 

I  have  long  had  a  notion  that  the  cut  was  the 
work  of  John  Foster ;  and  more  than  sixteen  years  ago 
(March,  1893)  '  broached  this  theory  before  the  His- 
torical Society,  though  at  that  time  I  supposed  that  Foster 
was  a  printer  first  and  an  engraver  afterward,  which  is  just 
the  reverse  of  what  is  known  to-day.  Within  a  short 
time  the  Library  of  Harvard  College  has  come  into  the 


io  JOHN  FOSTER 

possession  of  an  interesting  volume  of  twenty  early  pam- 
phlets, most  of  them  bearing  Cambridge  or  Boston  imprints. 
Some  of  the  tracts  belonged  originally  to  the  Reverend 
William  Adams  (H.  C.  1671),  of  Dedham,  who  died  in 
1685,  and  others  in  the  collection  belonged  to  his  son  the 
Reverend  Eliphalet  Adams  (H.  C.  1694),  of  New  London, 
Connecticut,  who  had  them  "Bound  in  170 1-2."  The 
volume  is  of  special  interest,  as  it  contains  a  copy  of  "  The 
Life  and  Death  of  that  Reverend  Man  of  God,  Mr. 
Richard  Mather,"  etc.  (Cambridge,  1670),  which  has  as 
a  frontispiece  this  same  engraving  of  Mather;  and  near 
the  right  lower  corner,  written  in  Adams's  unmistakable 
hand,  are  the  words  "  Johannes  Foster  sculpsit,"  and  at 
the  top  the  name  "  Richardus  Mather,"  —  the  crown  of 
the  head  dividing  the  words.  Apparently  these  inscrip- 
tions were  contemporary,  or  nearly  so,  with  the  pamphlet. 
Both  Foster  and  Adams  were  graduates  of  the  college, 
only  four  years  apart,  and  they  must  have  known  each 
other  well,  as  the  classes  then  were  very  small ;  and  I  now 
consider  Adams's  record  in  the  matter  as  final.  In  1679 
Foster  printed  one  of  Adams's  sermons,  which  fact  shows 
that  business  relations  existed  between  the  two  men.  Some 
years  ago,  in  my  "  Ten  Fac-simile  Reproductions  relating 
to  Various  Subjects"  (1903),  I  expressed  a  different  opinion 
in  regard  to  the  handwriting  on  the  cut ;  but  since  then 
I  have  examined  carefully  the  original  writing,  while 
before  that  I  had  seen  only  a  photograph  of  the  same.  It 
may  be  proper  to  add  that  this  particular  likeness  of  Mather 


AS  AN  ENGRAVER 


ii 


is  the  long  missing  one  which  heretofore  I  have  sought 
in  vain. 

Without  much  doubt  this  specimen  of  an  engraved 
portrait  is  the  earliest  one  extant  that  was  made  in  this 
country;  and  I  think  that  it  was  cut  near  the  time  of 
Mather's  death.  Six  copies  of  this  engraving  are  known 
now  to  be  in  existence. 

In  James  Blake's  "Annals  of  the  Town  of  Dorches- 
ter "  (Boston,  1846),  under  the  year  1681,  it  is  recorded: 

This  year  Died  Mr.  John  Foster,  son  of  Capt.  Hope- 
still  Foster ;  School-master  of  Dorchester,  and  he  that  made 
the  then  Seal  or  Arms  of  ye  Colony,  namely  an  Indian  with 
a  Bow  &  Arrow  &c.  (p.  29). 

Mr.  Blake  was  born  at  Dorchester,  on  April  30,  1688, 
and  died  on  December  4,  1750;  and  of  course  he  was 
familiar  with  all  the  local  traditions  of  the  town.  His 
Annals  were  not  published,  however,  until  nearly  a  century 
after  his  death. 

It  is  known  that  the  origin  of  the  Colonial  seal  dates 
back  to  the  earliest  days  of  the  Charter,  so  that  the  allusion 
here  is  to  the  engraver  and  not  to  the  designer.  The 
annalist  referred  to  the  wood-cut  impressions  of  the  "  Seal 
or  Arms  of  ye  Colony,"  that  had  already  appeared  in  several 
books  of  that  period,  notably  on  the  fly-leaf  of  "The 
General  Laws  and  Liberties  of  the  Massachusetts  Colony  " 
(Cambridge,  1672),  and  in  various  supplements  to  the 
Laws.  There  are  two  distinct  engravings  of  this  seal,  one 
of  which  is  noted  above;  and  the  other  is  found  in  Increase 


i2  JOHN  FOSTER 

Mather's  "  Brief  History  of  the  Warr  with  the  Indians 
in  New  England "  (p.  15)  printed  by  Foster.  In  my 
opinion  both  these  cuts,  which  are  very  crude  in  design 
and  quite  distinct  from  each  other,  were  made  by  Foster. 
One  was  first  used  by  Green  in  1672,  when  he  printed 
the  Laws  of  the  Colony ;  and  the  other  by  Foster  after 
he  had  a  printing  establishment  of  his  own.  The  cut  un- 
doubtedly was  used  in  order  to  give  an  official  appearance 
or  character  to  the  various  papers  and  documents  printed 
for  the  Colonial  authorities;  and  it  appeared  in  Mather's 
Brief  History  in  connection  with  a  proclamation  issued  by 
the  Governor  and  Council.  According  to  the  Reverend 
John  Pierce,  D.D.,  in  his  address  (p.  20)  at  the  open- 
ing of  the  Town  Hall,  in  Brookline,  on  October  14, 
1845,  "The  device  of  an  Indian  with  his  bow  and 
arrow,  on  the  Massachusetts  coat  of  arms,"  is  ascribed 
to  John  Hull,  the  mintmaster,  who  was  appointed  as 
such  in  the  spring  of  1652. 

Next  in  order  of  time  comes  Foster's  Map  of  New 
England,  which  passed  through  two  editions  during  the 
early  part  of  1677,  and  appeared  in  the  Reverend  Wil- 
liam Hubbard's  "  Narrative  of  the  Troubles  with  the 
Indians"  (Boston,  1677).  The  first  edition  of  the  Map 
contains  so  many  mistakes  that  a  second  block,  a  trifle 
larger  than  the  first  one,  was  cut,  in  which  many  of  the 
inaccuracies  are  corrected. 

I  have  already  said  that  presumably  John  Foster  had 
a  natural  gift  of  drawing  or  sketching ;   and  this  suppo- 


AS  AN  ENGRAVER  13 

sition  is  borne  out  by  an  extract  from  a  letter  dated  at 
Boston,  June  22,  1680,  and  printed  in  the  Collections 
(fifth  series,  VIII.  421)  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical 
Society.  It  was  written  by  Wait  Winthrop  to  his  brother 
John  at  New  London,  Connecticut ;  and  the  extract 
reads  as  follows :  "  I  haue  sent  you  a  map  of  the  towne, 
with  Charlestowne,  taken  by  Mr  Foster  the  printer,  from 
Nodles  Island.  Twas  sent  for  Amsterdam,  and  yr  printed." 
It  was  probably  a  View  of  the  two  towns  —  and  not  what 
is  now  meant  by  a  map  —  as  seen  from  Noddles  Island 
or  East  Boston,  and  sent  to  Holland  in  order  to  be 
engraved  by  a  skilled  artist.  It  is  not  known  that  a 
specimen  of  this  interesting  cut  is  still  extant,  though  a 
copy  would  excite  the  greatest  curiosity  among  collectors. 
In  a  letter,  dated  at  Boston,  July  15,  1686,  Chief-Justice 
Samuel  Sewall  writes  to  Edward  Hull,  of  London,  that 
"There  is  enclosed  in  the  top  [of  a  box]  a  Mapp  of  this 
Town  which  please  to  accept  off"  (Letter-Book,  I.  32). 
This  reference  to  the  engraving  shows  that  it  had  been 
made  and  that  copies  had  been  received  in  Boston. 

Mr.  Charles  Eliot  Goodspeed,  of  Boston,  is  the  pos- 
sessor of  an  early  broadside,  which  unfortunately  bears  no 
date ;  and  to  his  courtesy  I  am  indebted  for  permission  to 
reproduce  it.  It  is  entitled  "  Divine  Examples  of  Gods 
Severe  Judgments  |  upon  |  Sabbath  Breakers,  |  in  their  Un- 
lawful Sports,  Collected  out  of  several  Divine  Subjects,  | 
Viz.  I  Mr.  H.  B.  Mr.  Beard,  and  the  Practice  of  Piety :  a 
fit  Monument  for  our  present  Times,"  etc. 


H  JOHN  FOSTER 

The  imprint  is  "  Boston  in  New-England  :  Re-Printed 
and  sold  in  Newbury  Street"  ;  and  the  size  is  13%  inches 
by  18  inches. 

In  early  times  Newbury  Street  was  the  name  of  a  sec- 
tion of  Washington  Street,  as  known  to-day,  extending 
from  Summer  to  Essex  Streets,  but  it  was  not  so  called 
before  May  3,  1708,  when  the  name  was  given  to  it  offi- 
cially by  the  selectmen  of  the  town.  From  this  fact  the 
inference  is  that  the  broadside  was  not  printed  till  after 
that  date.  Bartholomew  Green  had  a  printing  office  in 
that  part  of  Washington  Street  both  before  May,  1708, 
and  for  many  years  later ;  and  he  was  probably  the  printer, 
though  the  exact  date  of  its  appearance  is  uncertain. 
The  broadside  contains  two  wood-cuts,  on  one  of  which 
in  the  lower  right-hand  corner  is  the  inscription  "  J.  F. 
Sculp."  ;  and  it  is  this  signature  that  gives  interest  to  the 
sheet.  In  my  opinion  the  blocks  were  cut  by  Foster,  and 
used  by  him  in  an  earlier  edition,  certainly  one  before 
1 68 1,  —  the  year  of  his  death,  —  of  which  no  copy  is  now 
extant ;  and  a  long  time  afterward  Bartholomew  Green 
came  into  the  possession  of  the  cuts  and  published  an- 
other edition.  This  theory  would  account  for  the  use  of 
the  word  "Re-Printed." 

Both  in  the  years  1677  and  1679  the  General  Court  of 
the  Colony  of  Massachusetts  passed  orders  to  prevent  the 
profanation  of  the  Sabbath  ;  and  the  subject  of  Sabbath- 
breaking  was  brought  prominently  to  the  front  by  legis- 
lative enactment.    Very  likely  during  this  period,  when 


EXAMPLES  of  qOD\  Severe  J  U  D.G^M  f  NTS 


UPON 


4     SABBAT  H  B  R  E  A  K.  E  R  S, 

In  their  unlawful  Sports,  Collected  out  of  feveral  Divine  Subjects, 

'">*  V-V  <  \       ■   *      '  '    VIZ,  •  ■  .  ■ 


Mr.  1J-).       Mr.  J0catD,and  the  PraQice  of  Piety  •  A  fit  Monument  for  our  prefent  Times,  $C. 


EXAMPLES. 


•  dk  »,Wuri'in  trar  Nixbttr, /»!•:.  the  fame 
jjf  l\  da>  the  R  >.k  for  Spores  %was  fead, 
'"rj         upon  r'm  Sabith  flay,  having  bur 

rh'''  io -hfr Pu,(r.tl'r<  3  Fl '• 
^wJpTSjJi  a  Minstrel,  who  comiog,  the  with 
WvK  ftlFto  Q^ncing,  and  £>  Continued  with- 
in Night,  and  ih,  few  Night  was  got  with 

hein'g  deucicd  and  spaa^t-herded,  (he  before  a 
joftice  cooteft  it;and  withal  toW  [he  occafiin, 
tying,  it  was  frer  falling  -s.Sp.ir':  no  the  hab- 
it .dirR  the  for  Spirts,  fi 
brosaftht^her  to;  this  eno,  l>.  which  u-.natural 
f  ac"t  Ihf  was  rut'  lo.d.  31':.  "  • 

».  At  **rti«rf*»,a  young  Man  that  was  at' 
hrlYol  alaoft-  kedd  tile,  but  after  by  the  ot- 
impwof  othlST  gooH  People  bad  began  to  re- 
fcrctffits  loofe  n$e  in  the  Obfervatitn  of  th# 
Sjftbatb',  but  hearing  the  Book  of  Sporti,  he 
fell  Jgain  to  profane  the  Sabbith  :  At  an  Aiit- 
i  i  there  whin  the  Jutfges  Wire  in  the  Church, 
.  iuinp  taken  as  VI  was  pitking  a  pecker,  he 
coniclt  that  uponihc  publilh  njrthefaid  Bvk 
e  wtA  encouraged  to  Wickedoefs,  and  lor  tbis 
Offered  Dea*.  " 

?.  A  \fci*atjNjWoear  Ltttd.i,  hearing  of 
the  Liberty  given  byitTms  Bock,  (aid,  Ihe  vevuU 
dance,  and  on  the  Snbbath  day  dancrtrtb  long 
hit  within  tw»  ot'Miree  days  (he  dyed. 

41  Upon  Mn  r'av,  beiof  the  Lord?  .day,  » 
Maid  4  the  Micifter  M  Critft  Gat 
la  isH^  Was  Matricdwo a  Widuarr  having  thff? 
Children,  and  upon  ihis  day  they  k  pt  tficir 
Marritgejptsft  in  the  Church  hiufe  j  lining  to 
•he  Chutw,  and  fpffit  all  the  Aftfrjfrqjl  A 
Dtjaciafl ,  but  in  one  Week  afte^i^H|MM 
gflB»inttat  Pari(h  in  th'  new  Miirri  H  Mart 
Hoi*,  and  within  a  M  .nth,  th*  M 

,1  Fljiefarn  "  M  J«  •  T."  iM  in  id  er  J?  c  &  Jt  r,  f 
aChu'chin  up-in  the  Siivdw  vcflsjd 

.  with  two  Neighbours;  boon  Companionij 
brjovial  the  ntxr  day  ;  they  Conditioned  be 
fhould  bellow  a  Sermon  upon  them  ;  they  on 
Lords  diy  fpent  the  Forenoon  idly,  and  in 
the'Afternoon  this  Miniltcr  with  his  Neifth- 
hours  vilited  a  Ltnin  MinilKr  that  had  a 
tfcH  e  there,  for  whom  he  Preacht.  Sermon 
betn2  ended  ihey  are  invired  to  the  Miniftcrt  .    .,  . 

HniiCp  miR  >trie  of  Sark    thev  drank  fo  lone      ",  A?ri1  ,h"  tS,!''  nn:  w«h  'hr«  oifren  Tro-n     17.  Jrvths 

HoU.etoa  tsitneotaaCK,  tney  MM  10  long  Lomlon  ro  M.ydonhccl  on  th:  S..-:-.1.;-,  .th-  dure  f-,,  Ih-Sl.v  1  Oatk-flt,  the  one  Iw'i.? 
that  the  two  Nughbours  toneues  began  to  fail  imh  io>»e,  but  he  sronkl  t«v-l  m  h, ,  w/y  -tji- ,,,/L -h-  iau,-«e,  :  ho,  Sfiiv-P;  .v„h  n^in^  fo  I: 
them.    That*  Night  thtir  Miniftrr  could  not  Dite&vm  whom  he  r-r> :.!  s  h;  .  x!i  t  >  -H-  iley  111  th<"Morain<».  &:  V,y  Night,  H  l>e  iiid  he  w.mM  >n«r  •> 
Sleep,  and  was  ftiuck  with  a  fuddeo  coldneh,  ;h'«  he.rd  »b«  <!ermon .  >^  «'%tr?T«i«tl.-J»  Afiewoon  ,      *>ty.ff°>><'  < »W  thb.  hnr  mdJMnJ 
and  with  much  ado  bring  returned  to  ta*.,  ^^^^^^r^^^  ii.r^^en'.'ir 
he  dyed  before  the  ntx  Lords  Day.  the  Min  wu  »mnttl  itdie  immrfiir-  lnnir  of  Godgs  be  afrani 

■eiIedrrl>i'<verronk  hhfjU  40''  faid. 


2».   One  Wijtr  at  jc.V«ii  th?' '^o' 
nTuch  at  the  fiifpLnrfing  ol  h  i  Niinr  at* 
reading  the  Book"  of  fport),  fayin  ad 
fhortly  to  (eetbern  all  C>  ftrved  :  \  a 
aff-^rucit  wit!,  a  dtad  PJfie  .  «*r 
the  one      >iiid  wi  a  bliudiicls  and  D*ab 
neflU''  A»fe  cult!  nii  her  go,  ho*  fie,  .m,> 
Tolaya  Fortt.igrK  and  then  dyed? . 
'\       ^Itir  fitldi  pra r  Ldn^^,  divers  Yoi,.|i> 
playtSfit  Cat  on  the  Sabbath  dav.rwi  ojthern 
rcll  our,  and  the  or.t  hiring  the  othei  ufldci  t  i 
Ear  with  his  Cat,  he  fell  down  (or  dead  in  ill 
phce,  the  other  was  fent  to  Prifon  ;  bur  thi 
wounded  after  a  lime  recovering,  the  Prif-jncr 
wa*  releaff,  which  m3y  be  a  wari/mg  to 
Youths  prophanentfs 
14  A'  Titin's*  in  J^.i4,'or  e  made  a  Feafl  on 
^-  the  Sabbath  day  to  h  s  Friends,  for  joy  of.  thi 
^  ^publifhing  thisBook  ol  fportion  thif/Lords  day, 
and.  the  next  day  was  pteff  to  dta'th  b/  mt 
fudden  fall  ol  a  (lack  -  f  Faggots.  * 

»f  At  Tbirnun  near  WejlsbtjtiT  jtthc  pub 
lifhiflg  thi*  Book.ibey  pnpared  foraStmmtr 
alt- upon  the  Sal.bath  Day,  ar  t!  a  lull v  yout  i' 
Wench  was  qhofm  Purveyor  fot  Csk  <,  an 
going  on  the  Saturday  ta  the  Mill  palling  by 
Hedge -ift  the  way  fhe  was  immediately  llruck 
and  fell  into  the  Ditch,  wher»  (he  was  foui.. 
dead  ,  tbfM  lay  all  t he  Lords  Diy, the Coromo 
be'wig  fent  for,  on  the  Monday  (he  was  carri' t 
to  her  Grave.  -  And  theeff.cl  wrought  fo  upon 
the  Pet  pie,  that  no  Sum-tier- Ale  was  kept';  K  it 
tht  May  pole  which  feelers  they  hod  fet  up  s.-, 
tookdowo.  A 

V-ft  Extmflti  »irt  titiftcdfrtm  Beards  Th* 
cfGidi  JuJfnunu,  »ni  lit  triBift  »/  fitif. 


thatufed  to  g' 
aisWifcbroughs 


6«  lie  Lir&t  Pj; 


A  Mitttri  ttsuf-  and  Mii  Bum,  &c, 


:  edge  of  EiTex  near  1 


klty,  rjw  Ml  wsw 


6  Oai*nai'}Xf  l6}4  being  theLords  day  <«R     bisrl.iee  Fellow  Travelle. 

in  the  time  of  the  grcat  t  toft,  Fourteen  Young  &  fe™*^^^^^^^ 

Men  prefumibg  to  play  at  t'oot-ball  upon  ihe  be  a  warning  to  stjm.  -  .,.^s»  " 

Ice  on  ihe  River  Tr«(i<  near  toG«njt»Mwi  w:re     i--  'ft  ^J4-  one  Elward  Ameriilerh,  1  GentfeTriaii,  hi' 

all  drowned    •  been  pained  in  his  Feet,  ind  being  ti|x>n  his  reco*eSMBhihera; 

7l  AtD,«r,he  fame  Lords  day  the  Back  K^T^t^^S^tW^ 

was  read.Jbe  in  St.  Jtitn's  Parilb  that  played  ne-tt  SihSmb  day  s  Mil  hetore  h.-  rt»»veil  one  of  tfuTajjace  Iw 

on  a  Kit/Wirh  it  called  together  divers,  and  "rue*  with  a  fcel.Ui.ei;  jad  ditiH>f!  in  his  head,  that  being 

that  very,  day  wa,  ftrurk  b/tbe  Divine  hand,  '^^^^^^^^^^ . 

and  witoin  two  days  dyed.  mer  meeting  wheMirfliis  Sou. was  t  •  ife  fticWer,  svent  hin 

8-  At  Hthtuh  to  Stfftx  tbis  Book  being  read  '«  it,  arubihert  beholding  ieThe  ftli  down  dead,  and  n; 

on  the  Lord",  Day,  the  new  day  ft,  honeft  fig,  nc„Gll<,ftM,WOHMn^ 

man,  one  T»m«.im  being  on  his  way,  hit  Neigh-  tI)Iy  tothc  Admonitions  both  of  hi   Mu.iite»  t      v1K.  tn.. 

boar  fcoffingly  askt  him  if  he  would  dance  iiera!Iy,ln  pubiick^c*  »nd  ih^r  veryjUy.  v  -<*gb)1w 

with  him  the  next  Sunday,  tonthom..Tci»V«i  r\^\?£~;y  >  f^gf  ^ 

anfweted,  take  heed  thou  be  notjJancing  in  JJj  '/,„  ^.haj 

Hellbefore  that  day,  or  before  it  be  long,  and  Mile fiom  his  liBH,T» Musical  Inllrut  ah  .» 

y  the  n<Xt  Week  fhil  fcofftr  and  .two  of  his  lids  or  the  Church  houle,  where  the  M  ;e  were 

•amily  dyea  '   '•'     r  SM^&^ae 

9    In  r*kfl»rt  at  a  Wake  oc  the  Lord's  Blay.'.atuJI  thV rout  fall  ailancni-  till  t 

Day,  in  Or/f/  Parlfhat  B»ildm,tvo  Men  fining  with  the  Miller  retort  t..  h,-  .Mill  :  o  l.c 

at  drink,  in  the  Night  fell  out,  «f  being  parted,  JwjAt*;  :' :^,r  *«  ' !  ,  1  •/",„  *ar 

tho  one  a  (title  after  finding  hi.  Fellow  fitting  nr  'lew,,'  ho'i:/:,:'; J.  ,.:''m;,;\  ^o,l  de-.-iiu^rw^J' 

by.lhe  Fkewi'h  his  back  towardi  him,  comes  $>e>ieR  p^rt  ..full  ins  ..ib-  r  tni  h...m  ■ 

behlni'fWliwi'h  a  Hatchet,  Cbineshim  down  confirmed  l.y  fundry  good  fegim.  n;e-. 
ihr  batjt,  fo  as  his  Bowels  fell  out  ;  the  Mur-     "  A'  B"»'™.- 


Yi  VufJKt  the  lorJsdif  ;  efcuningj  Witn 
ril  thfifeinh,  that  Sod  might  lie  glorifed 
Jjgj.lCTiijeht  tiQtni oof  his  Sin,  andYeforr 

■ 


■ere  <T.  r,v 
»ns  rbin,  S- 

.e  k  d»ad  "lShi'iri 


HouflloM-ftuff.    TBh  is  rh-  Stai  n 


^ihg  purfped*  1  >  a/Rivef  ana 


A  Noble  ma» 
ne  on  the  Sabl 
£iiMwitha- 
Ki«H«  in  fr4.«,T«  coverbua  Woman 
on  the  Sabbath  Day  to  dry  and  pill  Flax 
and  would  not  be  warned  although  t.-r'I'l.v 
took  Fire  two  feveral  Lords  Days  but  on  tht 
third  Sabbath,  (he  and  ber  two  Children  were 
burnt  to  death.  '* 

»8  Some  in  Trinct  at  their  Husbandry  upon 
the  Sabbath  have  been  (truck  with  Thunder, 
Come  had  their  Bodies  and  Bones  burnt  wjrb 
vilible  Fire,  and  tonfumed  to  Arties ;  Scflf  slds 
at  Playes  on  the  Sabbath  Diy  have  (alien,  and 
many  bave  been  wounded :  Tone  kilted  ouo 
right. 

ao  In  i  f 8 % ■  tt  P*r/i  OdrJtn,  upon  the  Sab- 
bath Diy,  a  great  Company  were  gathered  to 
behold  a  fort  of  Bear  bailing*  the  Sdffild  fud 
dainty-broke,  and  Eight  were  (lain  out;righr, 
■ad  many  more  wounded.  « 

^o.    A  Husbandman  grinding/  Corn  upiin 
the  Lords  Day,  had  hit  Mill  burnt.'to  Arties 
iiii     }t."  Another  carrying  Corn  on  this  Day, 
je>  bad  bis  Birn  and  all  his  -Corn  therein  burnt 

with  Fife  f'om  Heaven.      r  _ 
:eis     52  Stratfaotupm  >i*v3tt,  wasTwice  upon  the 
his  fame  day  twaUv  Maoth  (bw'ng  Lord^  day  ) 
Pj  almoft  confumed  with  F%e,  chiefly  Cr  pro- 
r?  phaning  that  Day.* 

er,  .  a The  Inhabitants  of  Tivnttn  in  Dtvtnfhirt, 
"  were  great  propbaners  of  this  Day,  of  which 
i  S-*le"«^ ^towd^ndShS  Iheir  go^'y  Minilter  did  oft  admonjOl  them  j 
Vi  ~«V*.  :o'i'i  '-"{ueilei'leJ,  tii  ?£.  and  not  long  aftet  his  Death,  on  the  tUrd  of 
-lently  flew  ro  the  Bun  in  which  their  jlpril  1/98. .by  a  fdddain  Fire  the  whoItrTgwr, 
w  fame  with  rhi, teen  dwelling  Hou/es  was   a|mun;  confumed,  to  the  number  of  400 
'nany.5  or  *rt°',m'h^  Hoiife!,  and  fo  Perfons  in  the  Flames 

i-d  i«35',  Oflob.  ee:.  afier  the  E00J;  of  341  And  once  fince  in  l6tj.  the  fame  Town 
lifhed  in  I'rmt,  David  mice,  a  Welfh-  was  almoll  confumed  again  ;  a  fure  Token  r.f 

Hill,  a  known  Cirafier  of  ihir  Conn-  —  • 
o  In,  Drove  on  Sanuday  Night,  decla- 
..    them  the  next  Day  early  in  the  Morn- 
m  1. 01 (Is  day  :  His  Holt  where  be  lodged 
e  u  was  the  Sabbath  day,  and  told  him  rbat  teaming  tt^it  ai 

we  M*gtft«tl£^t£?%?i?£  ?<•<">  *»Mj*. •it"'  W-lz 

)  who  will  hinder  me.'  So  in  the  Morning,  two  other  M>  ovtr  thttt  ttitrt  b,  btib  ftf»  ttutbtr,  t>  btvt 
fetch  the  Cattle  out  ofthe  Gro»ntl ;  fain  ;  bt  it  tutrtgituftj  bitJ  Rrolfvbl  ii  xor  flrucH 


iroaina»ill.t.rlS>lt.r 
ifl.  ThelallSilrinaajMiller  har 
III  on  ine  Lordi  <fay  ro  a  Wake 


iicfi  bis  iWhanenefi, 
1  fe.o-  Ly  bis  EKamyl*. 
:en  in  Warivi?kthiie, 


well  ;  yet  upon  the 

<  f  Ol.   i:lt:  ,    i  '■" 

ip  May-liofe:,   M  inic 

eiling  a  Week  - 


I 


i 


Gods  Anger, 


Gudfrtnt  tbdt  tbtft  pimifhm 

"    vid  ti  Cyprian  tbtt  Aidtm 


itffimi  mt)  It 


drowned  him 

'  10  Ftlru  9  i<i4.  being  upon  the  Lord's.  ' 
bay.  an  Apoihecary  min  in  Line  flrttt  UmJot,  ""J 
with  anoiher  Companion  rid  to  Jniiti  to  make  v,.,„ 
merry,  and  remrniog  home  drunk,  near  High-  wh 
Gate  mjitjBnUerj  to  -/horn  ofTeriog  abide  4ri 
the  TinlMuwket  h  I  Hotfe,  the  other  bid&him  ' 
tun  throogh,  which  be  did l.jffth  his  Rapier,  dav 
(he  Tinker  fell  down  dead,  and  both  .vereap-  tell 
p  ehended  and  fent  10  Nifjigu,  t 


him  at  the  Towns  end  (  not  yet  out  0;  ^  f,„  wkttf  bt.  btbtUl  tMtlm  fnifh  it  tttt 


tffib  ibt  Kaiu, 


Dorcetfh 

Loids  d-ay,  one  flinc;iiigi4is  Be 

-  -  and  atimoni/hed 

Onr  e.o. .in  l^nl  near  Stoke  in  Dorcctfliire^  rejoyein^        .,..;-.o -0  to  .my  othei,  or  that  hitnlelf  complained  of,  he  was  vfaffki 
,4!  rh-  cr'^ioi"  r  f  a  Snint-.ii  r-eoh.      ,  I'u  i:h  e/illed  Siint-  iir  N  in  good  health  as  ever  he  was  :  yer  within  little  more  than  alontjt  *9r u  Un\ 
,,1  1).  1   .(|!,mrati.l  layiMK  More  01  -  ..i  lim  Neigh'  -irs.  he  ..  ttoiics  eafl  oH  the  Town,  he  fell  down  dea  1  I'oddainlV,  anil  ,vu    .1.  ' 

dJo  lee  it,  <hoii"h  he  u  mt  naked  tin.  ,iigh  a  '  iiucKiei-Hedge  ;  borietl  111  Banbury  Chnrtb-yird  rhe  neitt  dayalicr.    None  ci  uld-  '   -JF        „  .  r       r  D„. 

*l»  aeotnmon  «rrverb  they  ufe  :  Going  with  Wood  in  his  dil«t...  any  linM'le  or  evident  caule  of  fo  flidda.n  a  Surprilal,  aSSd  ***)  'btf  3*'lmtntl  ,»  f.mt  b^tmt  t\tmtdlll 
..  ,0'  '  ,n  ,-,  the  FouHre,  where  he  lived,  auk  uling  theft  Mot  elf  gave  no  lign  of  anyjiains,  weaknefs  or  illnefs,  till  the  in-  tt  curt  tU,  —  fist.  »/  ibt  ftlf  Jlttll  J.n.  ,fbl:b 
S;  H.-aven  ..lid  E  ir'h  are  fill  of  thy  GIoiy.OLird      he  was  ftjrit   lime  he  gave  up  the  Oholl. 

tttly  fmitten  by  the  RrvkeofGod,  and  withi.itwum--.hVee     :.I..Ar  \Sick.,  a  Town  U-uvixt  Colchederan.t  Harwich  in  ElTex, 


,lbttmdt[thM,Jhtt 


idled,  and  hitrj 
fied  by  a  Minil 


ttsfn  lad  l  cur.,.:.-! 
mhis  Letter  to  a  Brother  Minilkr. 


ipoo  M'hitoiuda)' in  the  Afrei noon,- two  Fellows  auecting  at  the 
-  V uotliall,  the  one  kiUad  iht'otUex. 


JfeoftOtl  in   -f]5e»)'en3laiTD:  Re-Printed  and  Sold 


AS  AN  ENGRAVER  15 

public  attention  was  called  to  the  question,  Foster  printed 
the  broadside  and  used  blocks  for  illustration  which  were 
made  by  himself.  According  to  the  British  Museum 
catalogue  an  edition  of  "  Divine  Examples/'  etc.,  "  s.  sh. 
fol.,"  was  printed  in  London  (1672)  ;  and  perhaps  this 
sheet  was  used  as  "copy"  for  the  Boston  issue. 

The  initials  "  H.  B.,"  mentioned  in  the  title  of  the 
broadside,  stand  for  Henry  Burton,  and  "Mr.  Beard"  was 
Thomas  Beard,  both  Puritan  divines;  and  the  author  of 
the  "  Practice  of  Piety "  was  Lewis  Bayly,  Bishop  of 
Bangor. 

In  its  general  make-up  the  broadside  in  the  British 
Museum  resembles  closely  the  one  in  Mr.  Goodspeed's 
possession.  The  four  engravings  on  the  two  blocks  are 
substantially  the  same  in  the  two  sheets ;  and  evidently 
the  one  was  copied  from  the  other.  Even  the  legends 
underneath  are  similar,  if  not  identical.  The  cuts  in  the 
London  sheet  are  not  signed  by  any  engraver's  name, 
which  rather  confirms  me  in  the  opinion  that  "J.  F."  is 
the  Boston  printer.  The  title  of  the  English  broadside 
is  the  same  as  the  one  used  in  the  copy  jiow  under  con- 
sideration ;  and  the  imprint  reads :  "  London,  Printed  for 
T.  C.  and  sold  by  William  Miller,  at  the  Sign  of  the 
Gilded  Acorn  in  S.  Paul's  Church-yard,  near  the  Little 
North  Door,  1672." 

The  map,  which  appeared  in  Hubbard's  "  Narrative 
of  the  Troubles  with  the  Indians  in  New-England " 
(Boston,    1677),  was  undoubtedly   engraved   by  Foster 


16  JOHN  FOSTER 

who  printed  the  book.  The  evidence  to  prove  this 
statement  is  wholly  circumstantial,  but  all  the  various 
clews  leading  to  the  proof  point  to  the  same  conclusion. 
According  to  the  title  of  the  map,  it  was  "the  first  that 
ever  was  here  cut"  which  establishes  the  fact  that  it  was  a 
home-made  article  and  not  a  foreign  product.  At  this 
period  there  was  no  one  in  Boston  or  neighborhood 
known  to  do  similar  work  except  Foster.  Furthermore 
he  was  the  printer  as  well  as  the  publisher  of  the  book, 
and  as  such  he  could  control  the  whole  business.  Natur- 
ally, as  might  have  been  expected,  the  map  was  a  very 
crude  affair,  and  inaccurate  in  its  details.  Unlike  the 
common  way  of  showing  the  cardinal  points,  the  top  of 
the  map  represents  the  West,  and  the  bottom  represents 
the  East.  There  are  two  heavy  lines  drawn  up  and 
down  (East  and  West),  which  are  intended  to  mark  the 
boundaries  of  Massachusetts  Colony.  The  Charter,  it 
may  be  remembered,  gave  the  Company  all  the  land 
lying  between  a  parallel  three  miles  south  of  any  part  of 
the  Charles  River,  and  a  similar  parallel  three  miles  north 
of  the  Merrimack  River;  and  these  lines  were  supposed 
to  bound  the  territory.  The  engraver,  who  evidently  was 
unskilled  in  his  profession,  and  not  used  to  the  relation  of 
distances,  included  a  considerable  part  of  Plymouth  Colony 
within  the  jurisdiction  of  Massachusetts;  and  even  the 
town  of  Plymouth  was  brought  within  the  limits  of  the 
Bay  Colony.  In  order  to  remedy  this  defect  and  restore 
the  missing  territory  to  the  rightful  owners  he  drew  a 


HUBBARD'S  MAP  OF  NEW  ENGLAND -"WINE  HILLS." 


HUBBARD'S  MAP  OF  NEW  ENGLAND  -"WHITE  HILLS." 


AS  AN  ENGRAVER  17 

lighter  line  from  Scituate  to  Medfield  as  a  concession  on 
the  part  of  the  engraver  to  the  Old  Colony. 

There  are  two  editions  of  the  map,  one  slightly 
smaller  than  the  other.  The  dimensions  of  the  smaller 
are  11%  inches  by  15^  inches,  including  a  border  of  a 
quarter  of  an  inch  in  width  or  perhaps  a  trifle  less.  The 
other  map  is  larger,  perhaps  by  half  an  inch  in  length,  and 
a  quarter  of  an  inch  in  width  ;  and  instead  of  a  single 
border  line  around  the  edge,  it  has  two  lines,  of  which 
the  outer  line  is  considerably  broader  than  the  inner 
one.  I  infer  that  the  smaller  map  was  issued  first,  as  it 
contains  so  many  names  of  towns  spelled  wrong,  which 
are  corrected  in  the  other  edition.  It  is  fair  to  assume 
that  the  smaller  one  appeared  in  the  original  issue  of  the 
book,  and  that,  after  the  many  errors  in  the  names  of 
places  were  discovered,  another  edition  of  the  map  was 
brought  out.  Probably  the  corrected  impressions  were 
placed  in  such  copies  of  the  book  here  as  were  not  then 
bound ;  and  perhaps,  too,  the  new  impressions  were  sent 
over  to  London  to  be  bound  up  with  the  English  edition, 
which  was  printed  later  in  the  same  year. 

There  is  reason  to  think  that  some  copies  of  the 
London  edition  contain  the  "Wine  Hills"  map.  In  the 
first  impression  of  the  map  the  White  Mountains  are 
designated  as  "  The  Wine  Hills,"  but  in  the  corrected 
one  they  are  called  "  The  White  Hills."  From  this  fact 
the  two  impressions  are  generally  spoken  of  as  the  "  Wine 
Hills"  map  or  the  "White  Hills"  map,  according  as  the 


1 8  JOHN  FOSTER 

one  or  the  other  is  meant.  This  is  well  enough  for  the 
purpose  of  distinction  between  the  two ;  but  William 
Hubbard,  the  probable  designer  of  the  map,  and  John 
Foster,  the  engraver,  very  likely  would  have  pronounced 
"Wine"  in  two  syllables,  as  the  word  is  a  variant  of  the 
Indian  Winne  or  Winni.  The  same  root  is  found  in  the 
name  of  Lake  Winnepesaukee,  a  large  body  of  water  in 
the  immediate  neighborhood  of  the  White  Mountains, 
and  in  Winnebago,  Winnepeg,  Winnisimmet,  and  other 
Indian  words.  This  philological  digression,  however,  is 
not  akin  to  my  present  purpose. 

There  is  reason  to  suppose  that  the  draft  of  the  map 
was  prepared  by  Mr.  Hubbard,  the  author  of  the  Narrative. 
It  was  made  with  special  reference  to  the  towns  which 
were  assaulted  by  the  Indians  during  the  previous  year, 
and  was  adapted  to  the  text  in  the  book.  Who  could 
do  this  so  well  as  Mr.  Hubbard?  Mr.  Tompson  in  his 
poetical  lines  "  Upon  the  elaborate  Survey  of  New-Englands 
Passions  from  the  Natives  by  the  impartial  Pen  of  that 
worthy  Divine  Mr.  William  Hubbard,"  alludes  to  him 
thus :  — 

thy  new  Map  by  which 
Thy  friends  and  Country  all  thou  dost  enrich. 

This  allusion,  printed  in  the  prefatory  part,  might  well 
be  to  the  map  made  under  the  author's  direction  and 
supervision. 

At  the  time  his  book  was  published  (1677)  Mr.  Hub- 
bard was  an  old  man  past  seventy-two   years   of  age, 


AS  AN  ENGRAVER  i9 

and  wrote  an  indistinct  hand ;  and  the  names  of  towns, 
as  given  in  the  original  draft  of  the  map,  might  easily 
have  been  misread  by  the  engraver.  Just  before  the  list 
of  Errata,  near  the  beginning  of  the  book,  is  the  following 
paragraph,  here  given  line  for  line :  — 

The  Printer  to  the  Reader. 

Y  Reason  of  the  Authors  long,  and  necessary  absence  from  the  Press,  to- 
gether with  the  difficulty  of  reading  his  hand,  many  faults  have  escaped 
in  the  Printing,  either  by  mistaking  of  words,  or  mispointing  of  Sentences, 
which  doe  in  some  places  not  a  little  confound  the  Sence,  which  the  Reader 
is  desired  to  correct  before  he  begins  to  read. 

It  may  be  inferred  fairly  that  these  causes  contributed 
also  to  the  imperfections  of  the  map  as  well  as  to  those 
of  the  letter-press.  It  is  not  known  now  what  was  "the 
best  Pattern  that  could  be  had,"  which  served  the  engraver 
of  the  map  as  his  guide,  but  whatever  it  was,  presumably 
Mr.  Hubbard  had  a  nominal  supervision  of  the  work. 

A  fac-simile  reproduction  of  the  two  editions  of  the 
map  is  here  given  ;  and  for  the  purpose  of  easy  comparison, 
I  have  placed  them  side  by  side. 

Under  date  of  March  26,  1684,  Nathaniel  Mather 
writes  from  Dublin  to  his  brother  Increase  at  Boston,  as 
published  in  the  Collections  (fourth  series,  VIII.  52)  of 
the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  as  follows :  — 

This  I  send  by  Mr.  Joseph  Allen,  the  son  of  a  godly  woman, 
a  member  with  us,  whose  husband  is  one  of  our  Deacons.  The 
young  man  himself  is  civill  &  sober,  was  never  taynted  with  or 
inclined  in  the  least  unto  the  debaucheryes  &  raigning  vices  [of] 


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JOHN  FOSTER 


the  time  &  place ;  onely  in  this  unhappy,^  that  hee  was  bound 
prentise  to  an  ironmonger,  but  hath  so  strong  a  naturall  byass  to 
ingenious  handicrafts  that  hee  is  thereby  mastered,  &  indeed  so 
wholly  carryed,  that  hee  cannot  thrive  at  buying  &  selling,  but 
excells  in  those  other  things,  &  thence  hath  acquired  good  skill 
in  watchmaking,  clockmaking,  graving,  limning,  [&]  that  by 
his  owne  ingenuity  &  industry  chiefly,  for  he  served  an  apprenti- 
ship  faythfully  to  another  trade.  His  design  in  comeing  to 
New  England  is  that  hee  bee  under  a  necessity  of  earning  his 
bread  by  practising  his  sk[ill]  in  some  of  these  things. 

I  quote  the  extract  here  given,  as  it  alludes  to  a  young 
man  who  is  skilled  in  graving  and  limning,  though  nothing 
further  is  known  about  him.  Of  course  it  had  no  connec- 
tion with  Foster,  but  it  shows  how  in  early  times  a  man 
might  have  several  strings  to  his  bow ;  and  he  would  pull 
on  one  or  another,  as  occasion  seemed  to  require.  At  one 
time  he  might  repair  watches  or  make  clocks,  and  at  an- 
other he  might  do  a  little  painting  or  engraving,  according 
to  the  temporary  demand  on  the  part  of  his  patrons. 


FOSTER  AS  A  PRINTER 


FOSTER  AS  A  PRINTER 


THE  first  printing  press  in  this  country  was  set 
up  at  Cambridge,  late  in  1638,  by  Stephen 
Daye,  though  no  specimen  of  his  work  for 
that  year  has  survived  the  ravages  of  time  and  come 
down  to  the  present  day.  He  or  his  son  Matthew  — 
who  spelled  his  surname  without  the  final  "e"  —  con- 
tinued to  print  until  1649;  but  not  more  than  six  or 
eight  different  issues  from  their  press  are  known  now 
to  be  extant.  They  were  followed  by  Samuel  Green 
and  by  Marmaduke  Johnson,  who  sometimes  were  asso- 
ciated together  in  their  work,  but  at  other  times  printed 
independently  of  each  other.  After  some  falling  out 
between  these  two  men,  caused  by  disagreements  of  long 
standing,  Johnson  removed  in  the  year  1674  to  Boston, 
where  he  died  soon  afterward.  In  May,  1674,  the  Gen- 
eral Court  of  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  after 
granting  that  there  may  be  a  printing  press  elsewhere 
than  at  Cambridge,  for  its  better  regulation  ordered  that 
Increase  Mather  be  one  of  two  additional  licensers  of 
the  press.  In  a  copy  of  Increase  Mather's  Diary,  made 
more  than  a  hundred  years  ago  by  Dr.  Jeremy  Belknap, 
and  printed  in  the  Proceedings  (second  series,  XIII.  398, 


24  JOHN  FOSTER 

399)  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  for  January, 
1 900,  is  the  following  entry  :  — 

Decr  25  [1674]  Marmaduke  Johnson  the  Printer  died  in 
Boston.  He  had  just  fitted  his  press  to  go  to  work.  He  was 
to  have  printed  the  Indian  bible. 

Mr  John  Foster  bought  the  press  intendg  to  set  up  print- 
ing in  Boston. 

From  this  entry  I  infer  that  Johnson  died  about  the 
time  he  was  ready  to  begin  work  in  Boston.  More 
than  ten  years  ago  I  expressed  the  opinion  that  I  should 
"not  despair  some  day  of  seeing  a  specimen  of  his 
handicraft  done  in  Boston  shortly  before  his  death. " 
By  the  light  of  this  quotation  I  doubt  if  he  ever  printed 
anything  here.  At  any  rate,  nothing  as  yet  has  turned 
up  with  his  name  attached. 

John  Foster  first  appears  now,  at  the  beginning  of 
the  year  1675,  as  a  printer  in  Boston;  and  the  earliest 
specimens  of  his  imprints  —  of  which  only  two  are 
known  to  be  extant  —  bear  that  date.  He  was  not 
bred  to  the  calling,  and  knew  but  little  of  the  art  ex- 
cepting what  a  clever  young  man  might  pick  up  from 
observation  by  watching  the  work  done  at  Cambridge. 
Samuel  Green,  the  veteran  -printer,  in  a  letter  to  John 
Winthrop,  Jr.,  dated  at  Cambridge,  July  6,  1675,  and 
printed  in  the  Collections  (fifth  series,  I.  424)  of  the 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  speaks  of  Foster  as  "a 
young  man  that  has  no  skill  of  printing  but  what  he  had 
taken  notice  by  the  by."     The  product  of  his  press  was 


FOSTER  AS  A  PRINTER  25 

noway  inferior  in  good  taste  and  workmanship  to  what 
came  from  the  other  printing  office.  "In  1678  he  ap- 
pears to  have  procured  a  new  font  of  long  primer ;  after 
which  his  handsomest  work  was  done.  The  ink  and 
paper  have  stood  the  test  of  time  much  better  than  those 
of  a  century  later,"  says  Mr.  Sibley,  in  his  Harvard 
Graduates  (II.  223). 

Some  years  ago  I  presented  a  paper  to  the  Massa- 
chusetts Historical  Society  on  the  precedence  of  these 
early  imprints  by  Foster,  which  duly  appeared  in  the 
Proceedings  (second  series,  XIII.  174-177)  for  October, 
1899.  As  the  article  gives  the  main  facts  which  I  wish 
to  embody  in  this  sketch,  I  reprint  it  here,  though  at 
the  risk  of  some  slight  repetition. 

John  Foster  was  the  pioneer  printer  of  Boston,  where 
he  set  up  a  press  in  the  early  part  of  1675,  though  only 
two  of  his  titles  dated  that  year  have  come  down  to 
the  present  time.  It  has  been  a  matter  of  some  little 
interest  among  book-collectors  to  know  which  of  these 
two  was  issued  first,  as  it  would  gratify  a  curiosity  not 
altogether  idle  to  be  able  to  name  the  earliest  Boston 
imprint.  Like  most  of  the  publications  of  that  period, 
both  these  pamphlets  were  sermons,  preached  by  Increase 
Mather  only  a  few  weeks  apart.  While  the  presumption 
was  strongly  in  favor  of  the  one  with  the  earlier  date  of 
delivery  as  the  earlier  title,  such  evidence  is  not  always 
conclusive.     Fortunately  for  our  present  purpose,  there 


26 


JOHN  FOSTER 


is  in  the  Library  of  the  Historical  Society  a  manuscript 
Diary,  kept  by  Mr.  Mather  during  the  years  1675  and 
1676,  which  throws  some  light  on  the  question.  It 
begins  with  the  new  year  ("  im<  25*'  1675")'  and  goes  to 
December  7  ("  iom'  7"),  1676,  and  contains  allusions  to 
both  discourses. 

The  first  of  these  pamphlets  is  entitled  :  — 

The  Wicked  mans  Portion.  Or  a  Sermon  (Preached  at 
the  Lecture  in  Boston  in  New-England  the  18th  day  of  the  1 
Moneth  1674.  when  two  men  [Nicholas  Feaver  and  Robert 
Driver]  were  executed,  who  had  murthered  their  Master.) 
Wherein  is  shewed  That  excesse  in  wickedness  doth  bring  un- 
timely Death.  By  Increase  Mather,  Teacher  of  a  Church  of 
Christ.  ||  Boston  Printed  by  John  Foster.  1675. 

The  other  is  entitled :  — 

The  Times  of  men  are  in  the  hand  of  God.  Or  a  Ser- 
mon occasioned  by  that  awfull  Providence  which  hapned  in 
Boston  in  New-England,  the  4th  day  of  the  3d  Moneth  1675. 
(when  part  of  a  Vessel  was  blown  up  in  the  Harbour,1  and 
nine  men  hurt,  and  three  mortally  wounded)  wherein  is  shewed 
how  we  should  sanctifie  the  dreadfull  Name  of  God  under  such 
awfull  Dispensations.  By  Increase  Mather,  Teacher  of  a  Church 
of  Christ.  ||  Boston,  Printed  by  John  Foster  1675. 

Both  these  tracts  are  now  of  great  rarity.  When 
Mr.  Sibley  wrote  his  sketch  of  Dr.  Mather,  he  knew 
of  only  two  copies  of  "The  Wicked  Man's  Portion," 
but  since  then  several  others  have  come  to  light. 

1  For  some  particulars  of  this  explosion,  see  SewalPs  Diary  (I.  10)  and 
Hull's  Diary  in  the  "  Archaeologia  Americana  "  (III.  240). 


FOSTER  AS  A  PRINTER  27 

In  the  very  first  entry  of  the  Diary,  under  date  of 
March  25,  1675  ("  im-  25*'  1675"),  Mr.  Mather  writes 
as  follows :  — 

As  to  pticular.  1.  yt  ye  Ld  wld  be  wth  me  ys  year  also, 
owning  me  in  my  studyes.  &  in  my  ministry  in  Lds  days  e 
on  Lecture  days.  2.  Blesse  e  give  acceptance  vnto  w*  I  am 
printing.  3.  guide  as  to  ye  Printing  of  ye  Sermon  I  prched 
ys  day  7night.  4.  give  more  of  his  Spirit  to  me.  5.  Bless  e 
gvide  for  me  in  my  Family.  Lord  Jesus  I  comit  these  Re- 
quests into  yi  hands  Humbly  begging  for  acceptance  for  yi 
sake,  &  for  thine  onely.     Amen  O  Lord  Amen ! 

The  sermon  here  referred  to  as  preached  "ys  day 
7night,"  was  unquestionably  "The  Wicked  Man's  Por- 
tion," as  that  was  delivered  on  March  18,  1674-5,  the 
day  mentioned  in  the  Diary.  The  extract,  furthermore, 
shows  that  the  sermon  was  then  in  press.  It  seems  also 
to  prove  that  "The  Wicked  Man's  Portion"  was  issued 
before  the  other  pamphlet  ("  The  Times  of  Men  are  in 
the  hand  of  God")  appeared.  This  discourse  was  de- 
livered as  one  of  the  regular  Thursday  lectures,  a  series 
by  Boston  ministers,  which  began  in  the  early  days  of 
the  Colony,  and  was  kept  up  weekly  for  nearly  two 
centuries  and  a  half. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  the  date  of  the  other  sermon 
is  not  given,  but  it  was  occasioned  by  an  event  that 
happened  on  May  4,  1675,  which  day  fell  on  a  Tuesday. 
One  might  suppose  that  the  sermon  was  preached  on  the 
following  Sunday,  but  probably  it  was  not,  if  we  may 


28  JOHN  FOSTER 

draw  a  correct  inference  from  certain  entries  in  the 
Diary,  which  are  as  follows :  — 

[Sunday,  May]  9  A.  M.  Neph.  Sam.  [Mather,  son  of 
Timothy]  prhed.  P.  M.  Ld  assisted  me  in  some  measure  in 
ye  work  wh  He  called  me  to.  .  .  . 

[May]  15     Finished  e  corrected  serm  on  psal.  31.  15  &ca. 

[Sunday,  May]  16  A.  M.  my  Br.  J.  C.  prhed.  P.  M. 
My  Br.  S.  C.  prhed. 

Without  doubt  the  initial  letters  in  this  entry  refer  to 
John  Cotton  and  Seaborn  Cotton,  both  sons  of  John 
Cotton,  the  well-known  minister  of  the  First  Church, 
and  brothers-in-law  of  Increase  Mather. 

[Sunday,  May]  23  God  enabled  me  to  prch  both  pts  of 
ye  day,  e  also  to  administer  ye  Lds  supp  ;  &  carried  me  com- 
fortably through  all.  O  wonderfull  grace  manifested  to  a  vile 
sinner ! 

24  Wrote  eple  bef  serm  on  ps.  31.  15  P.  M.  catechised 
children. 

This  last  entry  without  question  refers  to  the  ser- 
mon now  under  consideration,  as  the  text  of  that  dis- 
course is  found  in  Psalms  XXXI.  15,  My  Times  are  in 
thy  Hand.  The  date  of  delivery  was  undoubtedly  May 
23,  as  on  that  day  he  preached  both  in  the  forenoon 
and  afternoon,  which,  according  to  the  Diary,  he  was 
not  often  able  to  do.  The  contraction  "eple"  stands 
for  epistle,  which  was  the  Preface  or  Introduction  to 
the  printed  sermon,  where  it  appears  under  the  heading 
"  To  the  Reader "  at  the  beginning  of  the  pamphlet. 


FOSTER  AS  A  PRINTER  29 

In  another  part  of  the  Diary,  under  date  of  May  22 
("3*22"),  1676,  he  says:  "wrote  epie  ad  Hist."  — 
alluding  to  his  "  Brief  History  of  the  Warr  with  the 
Indians  in  New-England/'  where  it  appears  as  a  preface 
addressed  "  To  the  Reader." 

It  may  not  be  a  matter  of  much  moment  to  the 
great  world  of  busy  men,  which  of  these  two  pamphlets 
is  the  first-born  of  Foster's  press,  now  extant;  but  the 
desire  to  know  the  bottom  facts  in  regard  to  priority  of 
publication,  on  the  part  of  a  mere  handful  of  worm- 
eaten  antiquaries  and  bibliographers,  is  as  laudable  a  curi- 
osity as  that  felt  by  two  continents  at  this  very  moment 
in  the  result  of  the  great  international  yacht  race  off 
Sandy  Hook. 

The  allusion  in  the  last  lines  is  to  the  race  between 
the  American  yacht  "  Columbia  "  and  the  British  yacht 
"Shamrock,"  which  was  sailed  in  October,  1899,  and 
resulted  in  victory  for  the  "  Columbia." 


ELEGIES  ON  FOSTER 


ELEGIES  ON  FOSTER 


THE  poetic  impulse  in  the  human  breast  finds 
expression  in  various  ways  at  different  periods 
of  time.  More  than  two  centuries  ago,  writers 
of  poetical  compositions  in  memory  of  the  dead  were 
more  common  in  New  England  than  they  are  to-day. 
They  gave  utterance  to  their  feelings  in  a  form  of  verse 
known  as  the  Elegy.  Such  productions  were  often  printed 
as  broadsides,  and  circulated  among  friends  of  the  family. 
They  were  generally  crude  in  their  metrical  construction, 
but  they  afforded  a  certain  kind  of  sad  satisfaction  to  the 
mourners.  Occasionally  manuscript  copies  were  made 
from  the  printed  sheet,  and  these,  too,  were  sent  around  to 
the  friends  of  the  recently  departed.  An  entry  in  Sewall's 
Diary,  under  date  of  June  9,  1685,  would  seem  to  show 
that  such  verses  were  sometimes  pinned  or  placed  on  the 
coffin,  in  the  same  way  or  in  the  same  spirit  as  in  modern 
times  flowers  are  displayed  at  funeral  services  or  laid  on 
the  graves.  It  is  found  in  the  paragraph  describing  the 
funeral  of  the  Reverend  Thomas  Shepard  at  Charlestown, 
as  follows: — "It  seems  there  were  some  verses;  but  none 

pinned   on  the   Herse.     Scholars  [from  the  college  at 

3 


34  JOHN  FOSTER 

Cambridge]  went  before  the  Herse"  (I.  82).  The  mean- 
ing of  the  old  form  "  herse  "  is  coffin,  grave,  tomb,  etc.  ; 
and  the  word  has  its  modern  representative  in  "hearse," 
a  carriage  for  conveying  the  dead  to  the  grave. 

At  the  time  Foster  died,  two  such  productions  ap- 
peared in  his  memory,  and  were  circulated  in  manuscript ; 
and  from  an  advertisement  in  an  old  almanac  it  seems 
that  they  both  were  printed.    It  is  as  follows  :  — 

Advertisement. 

HP  Here    are    suitable    Verses    Dedicated   to  the 
Memory    of  the   INGENIOUS  Mathema- 
tician and  Printer  Mr  John  Foster.    Price  2d.  a  sin- 
gle Paper,  both  together  3d. 

The  Psalter  also  which  Children  so  much  wanted, 
is  in  part  printed ;  and  will  shortly  be  finished :  both 
to  be  sold  by  John  Usher  of  Boston. 

The  title  of  the  almanac  is  as  follows :  "  An  Ephem- 
eris  of  Ccelestial  Motions,  Aspects,  Eclipses,  &c.  For 

the  Year  of  the  Christian  /Era  1682  By  W.  Brattle 

Philomath  Cambridge    Printed  by  Samuel  Green 

1682."  ;  and  the  advertisement  appears  by  itself  on  the 
last  page  of  the  pamphlet.  It  is  evident  that  the  "Ver- 
ses "  here  advertised  were  two  distinct  "Papers,"  or  sheets, 
as  they  were  sold  either  separately  or  both  together. 

One  of  these  elegies  was  written  by  Thomas  Tileston, 
of  Dorchester,  a  friend  of  Foster,  and  the  other  by  Joseph 
Capen,  also  of  Dorchester,  a  Harvard  graduate  in  the  Class 
of  1677,  and  later  the  minister  of  Topsfield. 


ELEGIES  ON  FOSTER  35 

Mr.  Sibley,  in  his  Harvard  Graduates,  refers  to 
these  two  Elegies  on  Foster,  and  makes  several  quotations 
therefrom.  He  had  found  them  in  Thomas  C.  Simonds's 
"History  of  South  Boston "  (pp.  34-39),  published  in 
the  year  1857,  where  they  both  appear  in  full.  The 
author  of  that  book  says  that  he  received  them  from 
certain  members  of  the  family.  Many  years  ago  I  bor- 
rowed from  Mr.  Thompson  Baxter  (now  deceased),  of 
South  Boston,  these  same  manuscript  copies  of  the  Ele- 
gies, which  were  without  doubt  contemporary  with  the 
original  printed  ones.  His  grandmother  was  a  Foster, 
though  not  a  descendant  of  the  printer,  as  he  was  un- 
married, but  she  descended  in  a  collateral  line.  It  is 
interesting  to  note  that  certain  words  in  the  two  manu- 
scripts are  written  in  large  capitals,  showing  probably 
that  the  copyist  followed  a  printed  sheet.  It  has  been 
thought  that  the  closing  lines  of  Capen's  Elegy  sug- 
gested to  Franklin  the  quaint  epitaph  which  he  wrote 
for  himself.  As  a  bright  boy  with  an  inquisitive  turn 
of  mind,  Franklin  was  familiar  with  the  main  incidents 
in  the  life  of  Foster,  the  first  printer  in  Boston.  In 
some  minor  respects  the  verses  differ  from  those  in  the 
"  History  of  South  Boston/'  and  they  are  as  follows :  — 


JOHN  FOSTER 


A  Funeral  Elegy 

Upon  the  much  to  be  Lamented  Death  and  most 
Deplorable  Expiration  of  the  Pious,  Learned,  Ingenious, 
and  Eminently  Usefull  Servant  of  God 

Mr  John  Foster 

Who  Expired  and  Breathed  out  his  Soul  quietly 
into  the  Arms  of  His  Blessed  REDEEMER 
at  Dorchester,  Sept.  9th  Anno  Dom.  1681 

iEtatis  Anno  33 

Here  lye  the  relict  Fragments,  which  were  took 

Out  of  Consumtion's  teeth,  by  Death  the  Cook 

Voracious  Apetite  dost  thus  devour 

Scarce  ought  hast  left  for  worms  t'  live  on  an  Hour 

But  Skin  &  Bones  no  bones  thou  mak'st  of  that 

It  is  thy  common  trade  t'  eat  all  the  fat. 

Here  lyes  that  earthly  House,  where  once  did  dwell 

That  Soul  that  Scarce  [ha]th  left  its  Parallel 

For  Sollid  Judgment  Piety  &  Parts 

And  peerless  Skill  in  all  the  practick  Arts 

Which  as  the  glittering  Spheres,  it  passed  by 

Methinks,  I  Saw  it  glance  at  Mercury ; 

Ascended  now :  'bov  Time  &  Tides  't  abides, 

Which  Sometimes  told  the  world,  of  Times  &  Tides. 

Next  to  th'  Third  Heavens  the  Stars  were  his  delight, 

Where's  Contemplation  dwelt  both  day  &  night, 

Soaring  unceartainly  but  now  at  Shoar, 

Whether  Sol  moves  or  Stands  He  doubts  no  more. 

He  that  despis'd  the  things  the  world  admired, 

As  having  Skill  in  rarer  things  acquired, 

The  heav'ns  Interpreter  doth  disappear; 


ELEGIES  ON  FOSTER 


37 


The  Starre's  translated  to  his  proper  Sphere. 

What  e're  the  world  may  think  did  Cause  his  death 

Consumption  'twas  not  Cupid,  Stopt  his  breath. 

The  Heav'ns  which  God's  glory  doe  discover, 

Have  lost  their  constant  Friend  &  instant  Lover 

Like  Atlas,  he  help't  bear  up  that  rare  Art 

Astronomy  ;  &  always  took  his  part : 

Most  happy  Soul  who  didst  not  there  Sit  down 

But  didst  make  after  an  eternal  Crown 

Sage  Archimede !  Second  Bezaleell 

Oh  how  didst  thou  in  Curious  works  excell ! 

Thine  Art  &  Skill  deserve  to  See  the  Press, 

And  be  Composed  in  a  Printers  dress. 

Thy  Name  is  worthy  for  to  be  enroll'd 

In  Printed  Letters  of  the  choicest  Gold 

Thy  Death  to  five  foretold  Eclipses  Sad, 
A  great  one,  unforetold  doth  Superad, 
Successive  to  that  Strange  ^Ethereal  Blaze, 
Whereon  thou  didst  so  oft  astonish'd,  gaze ; 
Which  daily  gives  the  world  Such  fatal  blows  : 
Still  whats  to  come  we  dread  ;  God  only  knows. 
Thy  Body  which  no  activeness  did  lack 
Now 's  laid  aside  like  an  old  Almanack 
But  for  the  present  only's  out  of  date  ; 
Twil  have  &  length  a  far  more  active  State. 

Yea,  though  with  dust  thy  body  Soiled  be, 
Yet  at  the  Resurrection  we  Shall  See 
A  fair  Edition  &  of  matchless  worth, 
Free  from  Errata,  new  in  Heav'n  Set  forth  : 
Tis  but  a  word  from  God  the  great  Creatour, 
It  Shall  be  Done  when  he  Saith  IMPRIMATUR. 

Semoestus  cecinit 

Joseph  Capen 


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JOHN  FOSTER 


Mrs  Foster  I  am  very  Happy  to  have  it  in  my  Power 
to  Send  you  this  Coppy  I  have  long  intended  it  but 
but  [j/V]  want  of  leisure  is  the  Cause,  that  this  may 
meet   you    &  Children  in    Health   is  the  Wish  of 

A  Shores 

This  note  to  Mrs.  Foster,  signed  by  A.  Shores,  was 
written  by  the  person  who  copied  the  two  Elegies.  I  am 
inclined  to  think  that  it  is  in  a  woman's  hand,  but  of 
this  I  am  not  sure  ;  nor  am  I  able  to  identify  the  family 
of  the  copyist.  Mrs.  Foster,  here  alluded  to,  was  the 
mother  of  the  printer,  as  he  was  never  married. 

Funeral  Elegy 

Dedicated  to  the  Memory  of  His  Worthy  Friend 

The  Learned  &  Religious 

Mr  John  Foster  who  Deceased  in  Dorchester  the  9  of  Sepbr  1681 

1 

Amongst  the  Mourners  that  are  met 
(For  Payment  of  their  last  love  debt 
Unto  the  dead)  to  Solemnize, 
With  Sighs  and  Tears  his  Obsequies, 
Loves  Laws  command  that  I  appear 
And  drop  a  kindly  friendly  Tear 
I  '11  venture  to  bewail  his  Herse 
Though  in  a  homely  Country  verse 
To  omit  the  Same,  it  were 
A  Crime  at  least  Piacular 

Our  woful  loss  for  to  Set  forth, 
By  Setting  forth  the  matchless  worth 
Of  the  Deceased  is  too  high 
For  my  poor  Rural  Poetry 


ELEGIES  ON  FOSTER 


And  greater  Skill  it  doth  require 
Then  whereunto  I  may  aspire 

Records  declare  how  he  excell'd 
In  Parentage  unparallell'd 
Whose  Grace  and  Virtues  very  great 
He  did  himself  Impropriate 
Unto  Himself;  improv'd  withall 
By  Learning  Academical 

His  Curious  works  had  you  but  Seen 
You  would  have  thought  Him  to  have  been 
By  Some  Strange  Metempsychosis 
A  new  reviv'd  Archmedes ; 
At  least  you  would  have  judg'd  that  he 
A  rare  Apelles  would  Soon  be. 

Adde  to  these  things  I  have  been  hinting 
His  Skill  in  that  rare  Art  of  PRINTING: 
His  accurate  Geography, 
And  Astronomick  Poetry ; 
And  you  will  Say,  'twere  pitty  He 
Should  dy  without  an  Elegie 

His  piercing  Astronomick  EYE 
Could  penetrate  the  Cloudy  Sky, 
And  Soar  aloft,  ith'  highest  Sphere 
Descrying  Stars  that  disappear 
To  Common  eyes :  But  Faith  and  Hope 
His  all-excelling  Telescope, 
Did  help  his  heaven-born  Soul  to  pry 
Beyond  the  Starry  Cannopy. 

His  excellencies  here,  we  find 
Were  crowned  with  an  humble  mind 

Thus  (Grace  obtein'd  and  Art  acquir'd 
And  thirty  three  years  near  expir'd) 
He  that  here  li v'd  belov'd,  contented 
Now  dies  bewail'd  and  much  lamented. 


JOHN  FOSTER 


Who  know  the  Skill,  which  to  our  losse 
This  Grave  doth  now  alone  ingrosse, 
Ah  who  can  tell  JOHN  FOSTER'S  worth 
Whose  Anagram  is,  I  SHONE  FORTH 
Presaged  was  his  Apoge, 
By  a  preceding  Prodigie 
Heav'ns  blazing  Sword  was  brandished 
By  Heav'ns  inraged  wrath  we  dread ; 
Which  Struck  us  with  amazing  fear 
Some  fixed  Star  would  disappear : 
Th'  appearance  was  not  long  adjour'nd 
Before  our  Fear  to  Sorrow  turn'd. 

Oh  Fatal  Star  (whose  fearful  flame 
A  fiery  Chariot  became 
Whereby  our  Phenix  did  ascend) 
Thou  art  our  Foe,  although  his  Friend 

That  rare  Society,  which  forth 
Hath  Sent  Such  Gems  of  greatest  worth 
It's  OAKS  and  Pleasant  Plants  by  death 
Being  pluct  up,  it  languisheth : 
Thus  dye  our  hopes,  and  Harvards  glory 
Scarce  parallel'd  in  any  Story 

That  GOD  does  thus  our  choice  ones  SI 
And  cunning  Artist  take  away 
The  Sacred  Oracles  do  Shew 
A  dreadful  1  flood  of  wrath  in  vieu 

Oh  then  let  every  one  of  you 
His  rare  accomplishments  that  knew 
Now  Weep:  weep  ye  of  Harvard  Hall 
With  bitterest  Tears ;  so  weep  we  all 

Chiefly  such  as  were  alone 
Flesh  of  his  flesh,  Bone  of  his  Bone 
Lament  indeed  and  fill  the  Sky[es] 
With  th'  eccho's  of  their  dolefull  cries 


ELEGIES  ON  FOSTER 


4i 


Let  James,  and  let  Elisha  too 

With  Comfort,  Standfast  weeping,  go 

Thankfull,  Patience,  Mary  likewise 

Like  loveing  Sisters  Solemnize 

With  Sigh's  your  greatest  losse  but  yet 

Your  Thankfull  Hope  do  not  forget 

With  perseverance  to  fulfill 

Know  your  Elijah's  GOD  lives  Still 

Standfast  therefore  with  Patience 

Comfort  Shall  be  your  recompence 

And  as  you  yet  Survive  your  Brother 
So  be  like  comforts  to  your  Mother 
Who  like  Naomi  Sad  is  left 
Of  Husband,  and  two  Sons  breft 
So  bitterly  th'  Almighty  one 
Hath  to  our  weeping  Marah  done 
Grieve  not  too  much  the  time  draws  near 
You'll  re-enjoy  Relations  dear 
And  all  together  Shall  on  high 
With  everlasting  Melody 
And  perfect  peace  His  praises  Sing 
Who  through  all  troubles  did  you  bring 

Thomas  Tileston 

[Endorsed]  "  Elegies  on  the  death  of  Mr  John  Foster  1681." 

In  the  last  Elegy,  near  the  end,  the  allusions  to 
James,  Elisha,  Comfort,  Standfast,  ^Thankfull,  Patience, 
and  Mary,  are  to  the  surviving  brothers  and  sisters  of 
Foster,  and  to  a  brother  Hopestill,  who  had  previously 
died. 

In  the  elegy  Tileston  speaks  of  Foster  as  a  "cunning 
Artist,"  and  refers  to  "his  accurate  Geography and  I 


42  JOHN  FOSTER 

am  inclined  to  think  that  these  allusions  are  to  his  work 
as  an  engraver  and  to  the  map  which  appeared  in  Hub- 
bard's Narrative.  As  none  of  these  old-time  elegies  was 
considered  complete  without  an  anagram  on  the  name 
of  the  subject,  Tileston  in  his  production  gives  one  which 
is  better  than  the  average.  The  custom  was  a  conceit  of 
that  period  which  long  since  passed  away. 


FOSTER'S  ATTAINMENTS 


FOSTER'S  ATTAINMENTS 


IN  certain  lines  of  learning  John  Foster  was  a  man 
of  some  special  attainments.  For  half  a  dozen  years 
he  was  the  author  of  an  annual  almanac,  and  for  its 
pages  made  his  own  astronomical  calculations.  He  was 
also  the  author  of  a  rather  learned  paper  on  "  Comets, 
their  Motion,  Distance  and  Magnitude/'  which  appeared 
in  his  almanac  for  1 68 1 ,  followed  by  "  Observations  of 
a  Comet  seen  this  last  Winter  1680."  At  that  period  of 
time  the  observations  for  almanacs  and  similar  periodicals 
were  not  so  close  or  so  abstruse  as  they  are  now ;  and 
there  are  other  instances  of  young  men,  recent  graduates 
of  the  college  and  in  no  technical  sense  astronomers  or 
mathematicians,  who  compiled  these  useful  calendars. 
Such  publications  answered  their  purpose  in  a  young 
community  and  satisfied  the  local  demand.  It  is  amusing 
rather  than  otherwise,  to  note  some  of  the  evil  prog- 
nostications of  almanac  makers  of  that  day,  that  were 
sure  to  follow  the  appearance  of  certain  celestial  phe- 
nomena. A  comet  was  thought  to  foretell  some  great 
public  calamity  or  disaster,  and  apparently  even  Foster 
was  tinged  with  this  feeling  or  belief.  At  that  period 
ministers  of  the  gospel  preached  the  doctrine  of  God's 


46 


JOHN  FOSTER 


wrath  as  seen  in  daily  occurrences,  and  the  laity  fully 
believed  it.  Who  can  foretell  what  changes  in  the  popu- 
lar belief  of  to-day  may  take  place  in  years  to  come? 

In  his  almanac  for  1 68 1  Foster  speaks  of  the  "ter- 
rible comet "  seen  at  Boston  in  the  winter  of  1680,  as 
previously  mentioned,  and  describes  it  in  some  detail. 
It  is  commonly  called  "  Newton's  Comet/'  Foster  says  :  — 

And  thus  is  this  prodigious  Spectacle  removed,  leaving 
the  world  in  a  fearful  expectation  of  what  may  follow :  sure 
it  is  that  these  things  are  not  sent  for  nothing,  though  man 
cannot  say  particularly  for  what:  They  are  by  most  thought 
to  be  Fore-runners  of  evil  coming  upon  the  World,  (though 
some  think  otherwise)  as  was  long  since  observed  by  Cicero,  ab 
ultima  antiquitatis  memoria  notatum  est  Cometas  semper  calamitatum 
pranuntios  esse. 

He  was  somewhat  lame  in  his  Latin  quotation,  but 
probably  he  had  in  mind  a  passage  found  in  Cicero,  de 
Naturd  Deorum,  Lib.  II.  Cap.  V.  Sect.  14.  On  the  last 
page  of  the  almanac  is  a  rude  wood-cut  illustrating 
"The  Copernican  System/'  which  was  rriade  perhaps 
by  the  author  himself. 

Foster  had  dabbled  a  little  in  medicine;  and  a  limited 
knowledge  of  this  branch  of  science  may  be  considered 
as  one  of  his  accomplishments. 

In  the  early  days  of  New  England  there  were  no  regu- 
larly trained  physicians  in  the  community,  but  ministers 
of  the  gospel  and  other  educated  men  had  a  smatter- 
ing of  medicine,  and  gave  the  benefit  of  their  knowledge 


FOSTER'S  ATTAINMENTS  47 

to  the  public.  The  rudiments  of  the  science  were 
taught  to  the  undergraduates  of  Harvard  College ;  and 
while  a  student  there  Foster  picked  up  a  little  learning 
on  the  subject.  As  he  left  by  will  to  his  sister  Thank- 
full  Baker  his  "  Medicinal  Books/'  I  infer  that  after 
graduation  he  still  kept  up  an  interest  in  the  matter,  and 
perhaps  occasionally  practised  among  his  friends,  as  his 
services  may  have  been  needed.  In  a  communication 
by  Edward  Rawson,  Secretary  of  the  Colony,  dated  May 
11,  1665,  to  the  King's  Commissioners,  it  is  said  "that 
at  least  one  hundred  able  preachers,  physicians  and  chi- 
rurgeons,  and  other  useful  persons  that  have  been  ser- 
viceable in  his  dominions,  that  have  issued"  from  the 
College  (Massachusetts  Historical  Collections,  second 
series,  VIII.  66). 

Increase  Mather  apparently  took  much  interest  in 
Foster,  and  very  likely  it  was  at  his  suggestion  —  and 
perhaps  under  his  preparation  —  that  the  young  man 
went  to  college.  Foster  had  been  baptized  by  the  Dor- 
chester minister,  Increase's  father ;  and  the  relations  be- 
tween the  Mather  family  and  the  printer's  were  more  or 
less  intimate,  such  as  might  exist  between  a  preacher  and 
the  members  of  his  flock.  The  first  two  pamphlets  printed 
by  Foster  —  so  far  as  they  have  come  down  to  the  present 
day  —  were  sermons  preached  by  Increase  Mather,  and 
the  last  known  pamphlet  from  his  press  was  also  one  of 
Mather's.  It  was  "  Heavens  Alarm  to  the  World,"  of 
which  the  preface  is  dated  February  16,  1680-81,  —  seven 


48  JOHN  FOSTER 

months  before  his  death ;  and  this  pamphlet  appeared  very 
soon  after  Foster's  almanac  for  1 68 1 .  See  Bibliographical 
List,  page  1 23,  for  other  facts. 

After  a  long  illness  Foster  died  of  tuberculosis  at  the 
age  of  thirty-two  years,  a  disease  of  which  he  had  never 
heard,  but  which  in  his  day  was  known  as  consumption. 
His  death  took  place  on  September  9,  1681  ;  and  he  was 
interred  in  the  Burying-ground  at  Dorchester,  where  there 
is  "a  pair  of  handsome  Gravestones"  (ordered  in  his  will) 
erected  to  his  memory.  They  consist  of  two  slate  slabs, 
one  a  head-stone  and  the  other  a  foot-stone,  of  which  the 
former  is  very  elaborately  chiselled,  containing  several 
allegorical  figures  all  in  relief.  Very  likely  Foster  had 
not  fully  rounded  out  the  age  of  thirty-three  years,  as 
given  in  the  epitaph.  The  exact  date  of  his  birth  is  not 
recorded,  but  he  was  baptized  on  December  10,  1648; 
and  in  his  day  the  sacramental  rite  was  performed  at  a 
very  early  period  in  the  life  of  an  infant. 

Some  months  before  his  death  Increase  Mather  apos- 
trophizes Foster  in  a  Latin  couplet,  and  Foster  is  supposed 
to  reply  in  another  couplet,  also  in  Latin  ;  and  these  lines 
appear  on  the  head-stone  under  the  usual  inscription.  The 
allusion  to  his  study  of  the  stars,  in  the  first  line,  is  to  his 
astronomical  investigations,  as  he  was  the  author  of  six 
almanacs. 


FOSTER'S  ATTAINMENTS 


49 


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.  |yj  ASRACOU&  VIVENS;M0RIENS,SUPLRATLRA/OSX/? 
ScA>DE,PR£COR;C0CUJM,ICTIRI  DISCE  SUPREMUM* 

^      NeCEIs£OR  QJJICQUAM.NISI  GRATES,  SOLVERE- 

M.  Living  thou  studiest  the  stars ;  dying  mayst  thou,  Foster, 
I  pray,  mount  above  the  skies,  and  learn  to  measure  the 
highest  heaven. 

F.  I  measure  it,  and  it  is  mine ;  the  Lord  Jesus  has  bought  it 
for  me ;  nor  am  I  held  to  pay  aught  for  it  but  thanks.] 


JOHN  FOSTER 


Arsilli  sua  census  erat 


Apri  L,  I  6  8  1. 


Skill        his  cash. 


[The  quotation  from  Ovid  is  found  in  his  Metamorphoses 

(in.  588).] 


50  JOHN  FOSTER 

The  foot-stone  now  stands  back  to  back  with  the 
head-stone,  and  evidently  has  been  taken  from  its  original 
position.  The  reproduction  of  the  inscriptions  was  made 
from  rubbings,  and  the  size  of  the  original  has  been  re- 
duced three-quarters.  Foster's  will  is  in  his  own  hand- 
writing, and  together  with  the  inventory  of  his  estate 
is  given  below,  as  follows :  — 

Will 

I  John  Foster  lately  of  Boston  but  now  residing  in  Dorchester, 
rinding  my  body  weak  &  languishing,  but  my  understanding  not 
distempered  or  impaired  doe  declare  this  to  be  my  last  Will, 
I  give  my  Soul  unto  that  God  who  gave  it  me ;  and  my  Body  to 
the  Earth,  to  be  interred  as  surviving  Relations  shall  see  meet. 
That  part  of  my  hon.rd-  Father's  Estate  given  to  me  in  his  last 
Will,  which  as  yet  I  have  not  received,  I  give  it  equally,  to  my 
hon.rd-  Mother  one  part,  to  my  natural  Brethren  &  Sisters,  viz. 
Thankfull,  Patience,  James,  Elisha,  Mary,  Comfort,  &  Standfast, 
each  a  part ;  &  to  my  Brother  Hopestil,  his  Children  one  part, 
to  be  divided  to  each  of  them  equally. 
I  give  my  house  in  Dorchester  to  my  hon.rd-  Mother. 
My  Will  is  that  what  I  have  in  Boston  belonging  to  Printing, 
may  be  sold  and  such  Debts  as  are  due  in  Boston  be  there- 
with paid,  my  ffuneral  Expences  discharged ;  and  20  or  thirty 
shillings,  paid,  or  reserved  to  pay  for  a  pair  of  handsome  Grave- 
stones ;  and  that  what  remains  may  be  disposed  of  as  follows, 
I  give  to  the  Reverend  John  Eliot  of  Roxbury,  twenty  shillings  ; 
and  to  the  Rev.ndi  Increase  Mather  of  Boston,  twenty  shillings  ; 
and  to  Mr  Cotton  Mather  twenty  shillings 

I  give  the  remainder  of  that  Money  (if  any  remain)  equally  to 
my  hon.rd'  Mother  and  to  my  loving  sister  Baker. 


FOSTER'S  ATTAINMENTS 


I  give  also  my  Medicinal  Books  to  my  Sister  Thankfull  Baker. 
I  give  my  Press-bedstead  to  my  Loving  Sister  Mary  Sale. 
I  give  a  featherbed  &  bolster  to  my  brother  Elisha. 
What  may  yet  remain  of  mine  in  Boston  or  elswhere,  not  yet 
disposed  of,  as  Books,  a  Clock,  &c.  I  give  the  one  half  of 
them,  (or  of  what  money  they  may  [projduce)  to  my  honrd 
Mother,  and  the  other  half  to  my  sister  Baker,  provided,  that 
the  money  by  them  before  received,  (being  the  produce  of  my 
printing  tools)  doe  not  exceed  twelve  pounds  apiece ;  which  if 
it  doe,  then  I  give  the  aforesaid  things,  or  the  produce  of  them, 
the  one  half  to  my  Loving  Brother  Standfast,  and  the  other  to 
my  Cozens,  Silence  Baker,  &  Thankfull  Brown.  Now  for  the 
accomplishment  of  this  my  Will  I  doe  intreat  &  appoint  my 
honrd  Mother  my  Sole  Executrix  of  this  my  Last  Will;  And 
in  witness  that  the  above  written  is  my  Last  Will,  I  hereunto 
set  my  hand  &  Seal  this  eighteenth  day  of  July,  one  thousand 
six  hundred  eighty  one. 


Signed  Sealed  &  Declared 
By  the  abovementioned 
Testator  to  be  His  Last  Will 
&  Testament,  In  the 
Presence  of  us : 

John  Danforth. 

Joseph  Capen. 

Mr.  John  Danforth  made  Oath  in 
Court.  6th  Octobr  1 68 1,  that  hee 
was  present  and  did  see  and  heare 
mr  Jn?  Foster  Signe  Seale  &  pub- 
lish the  above  Instrum1  to  bee  his 
last  will  and  that  hee  was  then  of 
disposeing  minde  to  his  best  under- 
standing Joseph  Capen  ye  other  wit- 
ness being  then  also  present,  attests. 


icr. 


mr  Joseph  Capen  made  oath  that  he  saw  mr 
John  Foster  signe  seal  &  declare  the  above 
written  to  be  his  last  Will  &  Testament,  be- 
ing at  the  same  tyme  of  a  disposing  mind,  to  the 
best  of  his  apprehension,  &  that  he  set  to  his 
and  has  a  witnesse 
Sept:  16th  1 88 1.  Before  me 

William  Stoughton 


I:  Addington  Clrc 


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JOHN  FOSTER 


[Endorsed] 

John  Foster  his 
Will  proved.  8- 

 1681 

Recorded. 


Inventory. 

An  Inuentory  of  the  Estate  &  goods  of  mr  John  Fostor  Late 
of  Boston  deceased,  in  dorchestor  Sept:  9  :  81  taken  by  us  whose 
names  be  subscribed  This  5  octo  :  168 1 

Imprimis  To  his  Apparell  wollen  Linen  &c  all  at  7-  0-0 

++  To  money  &  plate  &  pockett  Watch  all  at —  3-17-0 
++    To  a  Clock  Glasse  Gaily  potts  all  at —  2—  5-0 

++    To  his  turning  tooles  Carueing  tools  playns  &c  —  1-  0-0 

s 

++  To  his  Cuts  &  Coollors  15 —  0-15-0 

++  To  his  Gittarue  Viall  wether  glasses  —  1-  5-0 

+f  To  pap  printing  &  wast —  0-17-0 

++  To  his  bed  and  furnyture  all  at —  6-  1-0 

4+  To  Lead  &  woodenjack  &  pt  jronjack —  0-12-0 

4+  his  Book-screw  pewtar  erthen  ware —  o-  8-0 

-H-  A  chest  &  some  lumbar —  o-  6-0 

+f  To  his  Bookes  all  at—  7-  1-6 

H 

++■    To  An  House  1 5  printing  prese  &  lettars  [type] 
11 

60 —  75-  0-0 

44    To  a  shee  goote,  s6  —  00-  6-0 

+H    To  debts  &  patrymony  in  Reuersion  not  Knowne 


106-13-6 

Made  &  Taken,  the  5th  of  8b.r  1681 

By  us=  John  Danforth 

James  Humfrey 
Timothy  Mather  senior 


FOSTER'S  ATTAINMENTS  53 

m?  Mary  Foster  Exec*  made  oath  in  Court.  6^ 
Octobf  1 681:  that  this  is  a  just  &  true 
Inventory  of  the  Estate  of  her  late 
Son  mr  John  Foster  dece?  to  her  best 
knowledge  and  yt  when  shee  know's 
of  more  shee  will  cause  it  to  bee 
added. 

Isf  Addington  C\t? 

[Endorsed] 

Jn^  Foster  his 
Inventory  8b.' 

 1681  — 

Recorded. 

The  "  Carueing  tools,"  mentioned  in  the  Inventory, 
could  be  no  other  than  engraver's  tools ;  and  the  "  Cuts  " 
without  doubt  were  his  engraved  blocks.  During  the 
night  of  September  16,  1690,  nine  years  after  his  death, 
a  printing  office  in  Boston  was  burned,  which  was  the 
one  that  belonged  probably  to  his  lineal,  though  not 
immediate,  successor  in  business  ;  and  thus,  perhaps,  dis- 
appeared the  last  vestige  of  his  handicraft  with  these 
"  Carueing  tools,"  with  some  possible  exceptions. 

Mr.  Edward  Doubleday  Harris,  formerly  of  Cam- 
bridge, but  now  of  New  York,  writes  from  Saratoga 
Springs  to  the  "Boston  Daily  Advertiser,"  June  12,  1875, 
as  follows :  — 

The  grave-stones  erected  in  the  old  burying-grounds  of  New 
England,  prior  to  about  1780,  were  mostly  imported  already 
carved,  but  not  lettered,  the  completing  strokes  being  given  by  the 


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resident  artists.  This  is  proved  by  the  fact  that  stones  with  heads 
and  borders  of  the  same  design  and  style  of  work  are  found  in 
different  grounds  from  Portsmouth  round  to  New  York,  the 
styles  of  lettering  differing  greatly.  The  Foster  stone  is  of  the 
close,  compact  English  or  Welsh  slate,  different  in  all  respects 
from  anything  at  that  time,  or  even  now,  in  use  in  this  country. 
After  the  Revolution  a  marked  change  took  place  in  the  prevail- 
ing material,  marble  and  the  native  slate  being  introduced.  It  is 
certainly  true  that  in  inland  towns  native  slate  and  other  stones 
of  a  suitable  character  were  used  to  a  greater  or  less  extent  long 
before  1780,  but  these  are  immediately  distinguishable  from  the 
imported  stones.  Connecticut  and  New  York  were  also  using 
sandstone. 

By  careful  comparison  of  stones  in  different  places,  —  for 
instance,  Portsmouth,  Newburyport,  Salem,  Boston,  Lexington, 
and  even  Norwich,  Hartford  and  the  city  of  New  York,  —  it  is 
curious  to  note  how  the  styles  of  the  heads  and  borders  were 
changed  from  time  to  time.  It  is  not  difficult  for  a  sharp  ob- 
server, consulting  only  the  carving  at  the  edges,  to  locate  within 
a  quarter  of  a  century  or  less  the  date  at  which  many  of  these 
stones  were  cut.  The  writer  has  no  hesitation  in  pronouncing 
that  John  Foster's  grave-stone  was  imported  not  far  from  the 
year  1740.  It  probably  took  the  place  of  the  "  handsome " 
grave-stone  named  in  the  will. 

Mr.  Harris  is  an  accurate  antiquary,  and  his  opinions 
are  entitled  to  great  weight. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  OF  TITLES 
PRINTED  BY  FOSTER 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL   LIST  OF 


TITLES  PRINTED  BY  FOSTER 

DURING  his  short  career  as  a  printer  in  Boston, 
|  Foster  brought  out  a  considerable  number  of  books 
and  pamphlets,  most  of  them  in  quarto  size  and  in 
pica  type ;  and  they  all  would  compare  favorably  with  the 
issues  of  the  Cambridge  press  in  the  seventeenth  century. 
A  list  of  such  works  is  here  given,  —  so  far  as  I  have  been 
able  to  find  them,  —  with  a  careful  collation  of  the  same. 
I  have  added  also  a  few  titles  that  may  have  been  printed 
by  him,  and  probably  were,  but  of  which  fact  there  is 
no  conclusive  proof. 

Prince's  Catalogue,  mentioned  in  this  list,  was  made  by 
that  well-known  antiquary,  the  Reverend  Thomas  Prince 
( 1 687-1 758),  author  of  "A  Chronological  History  of 
New  England  in  the  Form  of  Annals."  It  is  in  manu- 
script, and  belongs  to  the  library  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society.  The  Catalogue  consists  of  two  parts, 
"  New-English  Books  &  Tracts  collected  by  Thomas 
Prince  of  Boston  N  E,"  and  "New-English  Pamphlets  be- 
longing to  Thomas  Prince  of  Boston  "  ;  and  they  are  both 
bound  up  in  the  same  volume. 


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The  size  of  the  different  imprints,  as  here  given,  may 
vary  slightly  from  that  of  other  copies,  as  in  many  in- 
stances the  specimen  described  has  been  cut  down  or 
trimmed  by  the  binder. 

1675. 

1675.  I  —  I  An  I  Almanack  |  of  |  Coelestial  motions  for  the  Year 
of  the  I  Christian  iEra  |  1675.  Being  (in  our  Account) 
Leap-Year,  |  and  from  the  Creation  5624  |  The  Vulgar 
notes  whereof  are  | 

Golden  Number  4  }  Epact  14 
Cycle  of  the  Sun  4  J-  Roman  Indict.  13 
Dominic.   Letter    C  J  Numb.    Directio  14 

Calculated  for  the  Lonitude  [sic~\  of  3 1 5  gr  |  and  42  gr.  30  m. 

North  Latitude.  |  —  |  By  J.  Foster.  |  —  |  [Two  lines  from 

Ovid.]  I  —  ||  Cambridge.  |  Printed  by  Samuel  Green.  1675. 

8vo.  pp.  (16).  Signature,  in  eight.  Size,  3!  by  5f  inches. 
Titlepage  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  the  top  and 
bottom  acorn-shaped,  verso,  Eclipses,  in  two  parts  separated  by 
a  rule,  the  upper  part  containing  at  the  left  a  cut  of  the  moon 
in  total  eclipse,  a  rule  following  the  second  part,  below  which 
is  "The  Suns  Ingress  into  the  four  Cardinal  points";  12  pp. 
March  to  February;  2  pp.  "A  brief  |  Description  of  the  Coeles- 
tial I  Orbs,  according  to  the  Opinion  of  that  Ancient  |  Philos- 
opher Pythagoras,  and  of  all  the  latter  |  Astronomers,"  followed 
at  the  foot  of  the  second  page  by  a  cut  showing  the  order  of 
the  planets  from  the  Sun,  and  also  the  fixed  stars. 

Copies :  American  Antiquarian  Society  and  Boston  Public 
Library. 

The  copy  in  the  Boston  Public  Library  has  the  word 
"  Longitude  "  on  the  titlepage  spelled  correctly.  The  quo- 
tation from  Ovid  is  found  in  his  Metamorphoses  (I.  85,  86). 


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mmmammmmm 

Hi  I    6    7  t • 

m   ^  

1  ALMANACK 

O  F 

Coelefiiat  motion*  for  the  Year  of  chc 
GHKJSTIAN  &RA 

*  «  7  #• 

(feear  Account)  L*ajvY«art 
<w<i  Creation  16*4. 

Tf*  r«/^4r  Hotes  thereof  art 

Golden  Nomber  4  .  )  S»a{*  f* 
Cycle  of  the  Saa  4  >  Roman  Tndift.  t* 
Doramic.  Utter  C.J    Numb.  Dire3io  14 

Calculated  for  the  tcnittide  of  1 1  $  gr 
fiDd4a^.  go  wi.  North  Latitude. 


<BjpFoJler. 


ds  htmi&  ftiilimt  rte&s  Cetlumquf  titrri 

jujfn  >&  credos  ad  Sjder*  toUtrt  Vxlnu.  Ov'ii, 


CAMBRIDGE. 

Printed  fey  Samuel  green.  s6?f. 


6o 


JOHN  FOSTER 


The  Times  of  men  are  in  the  hand  |  of  God.  |  —  |  Or  | 
A  Sermon  |  Occasioned  by  that  awfull  Providence  which 
hapned  in  |  Boston  in  New-England,  the  4th  day  of  the 
3d  I  Moneth  1675.  (wnen  Part  of  a  Vessel  was  blown  up 
in  I  the  Harbour,  and  nine  men  hurt,  and  three  mortally  | 
wounded)  wherein  is  shewed  how  we  should  |  sanctifie  the 
dreadfull  Name  of  God  |  under  such  awfull  |  Dispensations. 

I  —  I  By  Increase  Mather,  |  Teacher  of  a  Church  of  Christ. 

I  —  I  [Two  lines  from  Job  xxiii.  14;  four  lines  from 
Mark  xiii.  35,  36,  37  ;  three  lines  from  Luke  xiii.  4,  5.] 

I  —  ||  Boston,  I  Printed  by  John  Foster  1675.  4to-  PP- 
(1),  (4),  21.  Signatures,  three  leaves,  and  A  to  C  in  fours. 
Size,  5f  by  7|  inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  two  border  lines,  verso  blank ;  4  pp. 
"  To  the  Reader,"  signed  "  Increase  Mather,"  and  dated  at  "  Bos- 
ton 9th.  I  of  4th.  Moneth  |  1675,"  catchword  "  Psal."  below  the 
middle  of  the  last  page,  between  two  rules;  1-21,  text,  "  Psal. 
31.  15.  I  My  Times  are  in  thy  Hand — headpiece  a  line  of 
border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of  similar  inverted  pieces,  head- 
lines, marginal  notes ;  "  Tibi  Domine  "  near  the  foot  of  the  last 
page,  between  two  rules ;  1  p.  blank. 

Copies :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Athenaeum, 
Boston  Public  Library,  Library  of  the  late  Sumner  Hollingsworth, 
and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

On  the  titlepage  of  the  Historical  Society's  copy 
is  written  "  Jo.  Baily's  |  Booke.  |  Boston  N.  E.  |  March. 
io1!1  8|."    See  page  26  for  a  further  account  of  this  tract. 

The  Wicked  mans  Portion.  |  Or  |  A  Sermon  |  (Preached  at  the 
Lecture  in  Boston  in  New-England  the  |  18th  day  of  the 
1  Moneth  1674.  when  two  men  |  were  executed,  who  had 
murthered  |  their  Master.)  |  Wherein  is  shewed  |  That  ex- 
cesse  in  wickedness  doth  bring  |  untimely  Death.  |  —  |  By 


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61 


Increase  Mather,  Teacher  |  of  a  Church  of  Christ.  |   

[Two  lines  from  Prov.  x.  27  ;  three  lines  from  Eph.  vi. 
2,  3  ;  and  one  line  of  Latin.]  |  —  ||  Boston,  |  Printed  by 
John  Foster.  1675.  4to.  pp.  (1),  (2),  25.  Signatures,  A 
to  D  in  fours.    Size,  6\  x  7|  inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  two  border  lines,  verso  blank ; 
2  pp.  "To  the  Reader,"  signed  "Thine  in  Christ,  |  Increase 
Mather,"  and  dated  "Boston,  N.  E.  |  15.  of  2  Moneth,  |  1675," 
catchword  "  Eccles "  between  two  rules  below  middle  of  the 
page,  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  headline  on  second 
page;  1-25,  text,  "Eccles,  7.  17.  |  [and  three  lines  from  the 
Bible],"  marginal  notes ;  "  Tibi  Domini  "  near  foot  of  the  last 
page  between  two  rules  followed  by  "  Errata,"  four  lines,  in  some 
copies  six  lines ;  1  p.  blank ;  last  leaf  of  signature  blank. 

Copies  :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public  Library, 
Library  of  the  late  Sumner  Hollingsworth,  and  Lenox  Library. 

Increase  Mather,  in  his  Diary  under  date  of  March  25, 
1675,  writes,  "gvide  as  to  ye  Printing  of  ye  sermon  I 
prched  ys  day  7night "  ;  and  a  reference  to  this  will  be 
found  in  the  Proceedings  (second  series,  XIII.  175,  340) 
of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  In  the  Preface, 
he  says :  — 

I  did  not  know  that  it  would  fall  to  my  Lot  to  attend 
that  service,  a  whole  week  before,  and  much  other  business  was 
upon  my  hands  at  the  same  Time,  necessary  to  be  done;  .  .  . 
Little  did  I  think  of  Printing  this  sermon  when  I  Preached  it; 
but  that  God  who  sometimes  giveth  favor  to  those  who  are 
not  men  of  skill  hath  so  ordered  by  his  Providence  as  that 
many  have  desired,  that  it  might  be  thus  exposed  to  the  view 
of  the  world ;  out  of  respect  to  whose  Importunity,  I  have 
transcribed  for  them  a  Copy  of  what  was  spoken,  and  that  not 


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onely  as  to  the  things,  but  (since  that  was  desired)  as  nigh  as 
I  could  remember,  in  the  same  words,  which  were  delivered. 

Mather,  in  his  "Times  of  men  are  in  the  hand  of 
God,"  printed  soon  afterward,  says  on  page  15,  "Not 
long  since  two  Murtherers  were  executed  amongst  us ; 
and  since  that  another  horrid  Murther  discovered,  and  it 
is  to  be  feared  that  many  will  be  found  with  the  guilt 
of  blood  in  their  Skirts. "  A  second  edition  of  "  The 
Wicked  mans  Portion "  was  printed  by  "  R.  P.  for  J. 
Brunning  in  Boston  1685."  The  initials  "  R.  P."  stand 
for  Richard  Pierce.  On  the  back  of  the  titlepage  of 
the  copy  in  the  Lenox  Library  is  written,  "'Thomas 
Prince  his  Book  |  Deborah  Prince  her  Book  1730." 
Near  the  top  of  the  titlepage  of  a  copy  in  the  Boston 
Public  Library  is  written  in  Increase  Mather's  hand, 
"  For  ye  Revd  Mr  Higginson  in  Salem/'  For  a  further 
account  of  this  tract,  see  page  26,  and  also  my  "Ten 
Fac-simile  Reproductions"  (Boston,  1901,  pp.  19-21), 
where  a  fac-simile  of  the  titlepage  is  given. 

1676. 

[1676.    An   Almanack  .  .  .  By]  J.  F.    [Boston.    Printed  by 
J.  Foster.  1676.] 

This  title  is  taken  from  the  Brinley  Catalogue  (I.  No. 
707),  and  according  to  a  note  there  "It  contains  a  great 
many  memoranda  and  weather-notes,  by  Judge  Sewall." 
It  has  on  the  titlepage  in  Judge  Sewall's  hand,  "  Febru- 


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arii  11.  '75.  Ex  dono  D.  Johannis  Foster  Typographi." 
It  is  not  known  to  the  writer  where  this  copy  now  is. 
Thomas,  in  his  History  of  Printing  (Haven's  edition,  I. 
84,  85),  says  of  Foster's  printing  that  the  "earliest  book 
which  I  have  seen  from  the  press  under  his  care  was 
published  in  1676." 

[A  Brief  History  of  the  War  with  the  Indians  in  New-Eng- 
land. From  June  24.  1675.  (wnen  the  first  Englishman 
was  Murdered  by  the  Indians)  to  August  12.  1676.  when 
Philip,  alias  Metacomet,  the  principal  Author  and  Beginner 
of  the  War,  was  slain.  Wherein  the  Grounds,  Beginning, 
and  Progress  of  the  War,  is  summarily  expressed.  To- 
gether with  a  serious  Exhortation  to  the  Inhabitants  of 
that  Land.  By  Increase  Mather,  Teacher  of  a  Church  of 
Christ,  in  Boston  in  New-England.  Boston,  Printed  and 
Sold  by  John  Foster,  1676.]  [Probably  410.  pp.  (1), 
(1),  (5),  5i.  8.] 

(Probable  half-title,  "  The  Wars  of  New-England,"  verso 
blank ;  title  probably  as  given  above,  verso,  license  to  print ; 
4  pp.  "To  the  Reader,"  signed  by  "Increase  Mather";  1— 5 1, 
text ;   1  p.  blank  ;   1-8,  "  Postscript.") 

This  supposed  title  and  collation  are  made  up  from 
the  London  edition,  "  Printed  for  Richard  Chiswell  .  .  . 
according  to  the  Original  Copy  Printed  in  New-England. 
1676/'  as  it  says  in  the  imprint,  and  are  given  here  as 
a  tentative  title  and  description  of  the  "  Original  Copy/' 
Chiswell,  in  a  letter  to  Increase  Mather,  dated  at  London, 
February  6,  1676-7,  and  printed  in  the  Collections  (fourth 
series,  VIII.  575-577)  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical 
Society,  refers  to  it  as  follows :  — 


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I  received  the  two  coppies  of  your  history  of  the  Warrs  in 
New  Engld,  for  which  I  heartily  thank  you,  &  two  also  for 
your  Brother,  which  I  sent  last  week  away  for  Dublin,  but 
before  these  came  to  my  hands  (at  least  a  month  before)  a 
friend  of  mine  by  accident  met  with  the  very  first  of  them 
that  came  over  to  England,  &  brought  it  to  me,  &  caused 
it  to  be  printed,  but  some  people  here  made  it  too  much 
their  business  to  cry  it  downe,  &  sayd  a  better  narrative  was 
comeing,  which  did  very  much  dissapoint  me,  so  that  I  never 
sold  5  hundred  of  them ;  yet  as  a  token  of  my  thankfullness 
to  you  for  your  respects,  I  have  sent  you  two  dozen  of  them  : 
That  they  are  without  the  Exhortation  mentioned  in  the  title 
is  because  the  Coppy  I  received  from  my  friend  had  it  not,  & 
there  was  not  then  another  coppy  come. 

By  the  following  extracts  from  a  letter  by  William 
Goffe  to  Increase  Mather,  dated  at  "  Ebenezer,"  Septem- 
ber 8,  1676,  and  printed  in  the  same  volume  of  the  Col- 
lections (pp.  156,  158,  159),  it  will  be  seen  that  the  two 
parts  were  first  printed  separately :  — 

I  have  read  over  your  seasonable  Exhortation.  ...  As  I 
was  going  to  seale  vp  my  letter,  I  was  tould  that  beside  your 
Exhortation,  you  have  also  taken  pains  to  write  a  History  of 
the  War,  which  is  also  printed.  But  I  have  not  had  the  Happy- 
nesse  as  yet,  to  see  it  ;  .  .  . 

In  regard  to  the  London  Edition  (1 676),  Prince  says  :  — 

This  is  sd  at  ye  Bottom  of  ye  Title  Page,  to  b[e]  Printed 
according  to  ye  Original  Copy  Prind  in  N  E.  1676.  &  in  ye 
Title  Page,  as  well  as  Preface,  yr  is  mention  md  of  A  serious  Ex- 
ortation  added,  wc  seems  to  be  left  out  of  this  London-Edition. 


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Mather  in  his  "  Relation "  (Boston,  1677),  speaks  of 
"that  brief  historical  Account  of  the  War  with  the  In- 
dians in  New  England,  published  the  last  summer." 

A  I  Brief  History  |  of  the  |  VVarr  |  with    the    Indians    in  | 
New-England,  |  (From  June    24,    1675.   wnen    the  first 
English-man  was  mur-  |  dered  by  the  Indians,  to  August 
12.    1676.  when    Philip,   alias  |  Metacomet,  the  principal 
Author  and  Beginner  ]  of  the  Warr,  was  slain.)  |  Wherein 
the  Grounds,  Beginning,  and  Progress  of  the  Warr,  |  is  sum- 
marily expressed.  |  Together  with  a  serious  |  Exhortation  | 
to  the  Inhabitants  of  that  Land,  |  —  |  By  Increase  Mather, 
Teacher  of  a  Church  of  |  Christ,  in  Boston  in  New-England. 
I  —  I  [Two  lines  from  Levit.  xxvi.  25  ;   two  lines  from 
Psalms  cvii.  43  ;  one  line  from  Jer.  xxii.  15.]  |  —  |  [Three 
lines  of  Latin.]  |  — 1|   Boston,  Printed  and  Sold  by  John 
Foster  over  |  against  the  Sign  of  the  Dove.    1676.  4to, 
(1),  (4),  51,  8.    Signatures,  a  in  four,  first  leaf  wanting,  A  to 
F  in  fours,  G  in  two,  ?  in  four.    Size,  5I  by  7!  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  two  border  lines,  verso  blank ;  4 
pp.  "  To  the  Reader,"  signed  "  Increase  Mather,"  headpiece  of 
three  lines,  one  line  of  fine  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  line  of 
similar  pieces,  headlines,  catchwords  "  A  Brief"  at  foot  of  the 
last  page;  1-51,"  A  Brief  |  History  |  Of  the  |  VVarre  |  With  the 
Indians  in  |  New-England,"  line  of  Greek  at  the  end  between 
two  rules,  large  ornamental  headpiece,  pp.  15  and  16  contain  an 
impression  of  the  seal  of  the  Colony,  shewing  the  pine  tree,  and 
the  heading,  "At  A  |  Council  |  Held  at  Boston,  Sept.  17.  1675," 
followed  by  the  text  of  a  proclamation  of  the  Governor  and 
Council  for  "a  Day  of  publick  Humiliation,  with  Fasting  and 
Prayer,  throughout  this  whole  Colony,"  ending  just  below  the 
middle  of  page  16  with  the  words  "By  the  Council,  Edward 
Rawson  Secr't,"  running  headlines ;   1  p.  blank ;    1-8,  "  Post- 
script,"   same  headpiece  as  at  the  beginning  of  the  Preface, 

5 


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headlines  ;  "  Finis "  near  foot  of  the  page  between  two  rules, 
followed  by  a  list  of  "  Errata,"  five  lines. 

Copies :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public 
Library,  Library  of  the  late  Sumner  Hollingsworth,  John 
Carter  Brown  Library,  Lenox  Library,  and  Massachusettts 
Historical  Society. 

This  issue  has  the  "  Earnest  Exhortation  "  appended, 
as  shown  by  the  title  given  above.  In  the  beginning  of 
his  Preface  he  speaks  of  his  History  as 

meerly  for  my  own  private  use,  nor  had  I  the  least  thought 
of  publishing  any  of  my  Observations,  until  such  time  as  I 
read  a  Narrative  of  this  Warr,  said  to  be  written  by  a  Mer- 
chant of  Boston,  which  it  seems  met  with  an  Imprimatur  at 
London  in  December  last :  the  abounding  mistakes  therein 
caused  me  to  think  it  necessary,  that  a  true  History  of  this 
affair  should  be  published.  .  .  .  whilst  I  was  doing  this,  there 
came  to  my  hands  another  Narrative  of  this  Warr,  written  by 
a  Quaker  in  Road-Island,  who  pretends  to  know  the  Truth  of 
things,  but  that  Narrative  being  fraught  with  worse  things  than 
meer  Mistakes,  I  was  thereby  quickned  to  expedite  what  I 
had  in  hand. 

An  Earnest  |  Exhortation  |  To  the  Inhabitants  of  |  New-Eng- 
land, |  To  hearken  to  the  voice  of  God  |  in  his  late  and 
present  |  Dispensations  |  As  ever  they  desire  to  escape  an- 
other Judgement,  seven  times  |  greater  than  any  thing  which 
as  yet  hath  been.  |  —  |  By  Increase  Mather  ;  Teacher  of 
a  Church  |  in  Boston  in  New-England.  |  —  |  [Three  lines 
from  Lev.  xxvi.  23,  24;  two  lines  from  Jer.  xiii.  17;  three 
lines  from  1  Cor.  x.  11.]  |  — ||  Boston  |  Printed  by  John 
Foster:  And  are  to  be  Sold  over  against  |  the  Dove.  1676. 
4to.  pp.  (1),  (2),  26.  Signatures,  A  to  D  in  fours.  Size, 
Sj  by  7J  inches. 


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67 


Titlepage,  surrounded  by  two  border  lines,  verso  blank ;  2  pp. 
"  To  the  Reader,"  signed  "  Increase  Mather,'*  and  dated  at 
"Boston  N.  E.  |  26.  of  5  m.  |  1676,"  headpiece  a  line  of  bor- 
der pieces;  1-21,  "An  |  Exhortation  |  To  the  inhabitants  of  | 
New-England,"  headpiece  a  line  of  fine  border  pieces,  a  rule, 
and  another  line  of  similar  pieces,  running  headlines ;  "  Errata," 
two  lines,  at  the  foot  of  page  26,  below  "  Finis  " ;  2  pp.  blank. 

Copies :  Library  of  the  late  Sumner  Hollingsworth,  John 
Carter  Brown  Library,  Lenox  Library,  and  Massachusetts  His- 
torical Society. 

This  may  have  been  printed  before  his  "  Brief  His- 
tory/' to  which  it  is  appended  as  indicated  by  the  title- 
page  of  that  work ;  and  was  circulated  separately  as 
shown  by  the  extract  from  GofFe's  letter  on  page  64.  A 
copy  of  this  separate  issue  has  not  yet  been  found. 

George  Fox  |  Digg'd  out  of  his  |  Burrovves,  |  Or  an  Offer  of 
I  Disputation  |  On  fourteen  Proposalls  made  this  last 
Summer  1672  (so  call'd)  |  unto  G.  Fox  then  present  on 
Rode-Island  |  in  New-England,  by  R.  W.  |  As  also  how 
(G.  Fox  slily  departing)  the  Disputation  went  on  |  being 
managed  three  dayes  at  Newport  on  Rode-Island,  and  | 
one  day  at  Providence,  between  John  Stubs,  John  Burnet, 
and  I  William  Edmundson  on  the  one  part,  and  R.  W. 
on  the  other.  |  In  which  many  Quotations  out  of  G.  Fox 
&  Ed.  Burrowes  Book  |  in  Folio  are  alleadged.  |  With  an 
I  Apendix  |  Of  some  scores  of  G.  F.  his  simple  lame 
Answers  to  his  Oppo-  |  sites  in  that  Book,  quoted  and 
replyed  to  |  By  R.  W.  of  Providence  in  N.  E.  |  —  || 
Boston  I  Printed  by  John  Foster,  1676.  4to.  pp.  (1),  (5), 
208,  119.  Signatures,  a  in  four,  A  to  Cc  and  A  to  P  in 
fours.    Size,  5I  by  7I  inches. 


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Titlepage,  surrounded  by  two  border  lines,  verso  blank ; 
2  pp.  "To  |  The  Kings  Majesty  |  Charles  the  I  Id:  &c.  | 
Whom  the  King  of  Heaven  long  and  |  eternally  Preserve,'' 
signed,  "  Roger  Williams,"  and  dated  at  "  Providence  in 
N-England,  |  March  ioth.  167J;  |  (ut  Vulgo),"  large  ornamental 
headpiece ;  2  pp.  "  To  the  People  called  Quakers,"  signed, 
"R.  W.,"  and  dated  at  "Providence,  March  10.  |  1673]  (so 
called),"  headpiece  a  line  of  small  border  pieces ;  1  p.  "  To 
those  many  Learned  and  Pious  Men,  whom  |  G.  Fox  hath  so 
sillily  and  scornfully  answered  |  in  his  Book  in  Folio  |  Espe- 
cially to  those  whose  Names  I  have  been  bold  to  mention  |  in 
the  Narrative  and  Apendix,  |  Mr  Richard  Baxter,  Mr  Iohn 
Owen  &c."  signed,  "  R.  W.,"  as  before  and  dated  "  Prov. 
March  10.  1673;";  1  P*  blank ;  1-140,  "A  Narration  of  |  A 
Conference  |  or  |  Dispute,  |  This  last  August  1672  (so  called) 
in  the  |  Colony  of  Rode-Iland  and  Providence,  Plantations  in 
I  N.  England,  between  Roger  Williams  of  Providence,  (who 
I  Challenged  G  Fox  by  writing  (which  followes)  and  all  his  | 
Friends  then  met  on  Rode-Iland,"  (and  G.  Fox  with-  |  drawing) 
John  Stubs,  John  Burniat,  and  William  |  Edmundson,  (three  of 
their  ablest  Apostles)  on  |  the  other,  that  is,  (on  the  pretended  | 
Quakers)  Party,"  catchword  "Our"  below  middle  of  page  140 
between  two  rules,  an  ornamental  headpiece  like  the  one  first 
mentioned,  pages  130,  131,  and  134,  135,  incorrectly  numbered 
134,  135,  and  135,  136,  marginal  notes;  1  p.  blank;  141  [verso 
of  blank  page)  -143,  145-208,  "  Our  Conferences  and  Disputes 
at  I  Providence  upon  the  se-  |  ven  other  Positions  mentioned 
in  my  Pa-  |  per  sent  to  G.  Fox  and  his  Associates,"  headpiece 
a  line  of  acorn-shaped  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of  similar 
pieces  inverted,  the  count  continuing  correctly  on  page  145, 
marginal  notes,  catchwords  "  An  Apen- "  at  foot  of  the  page ; 
1-119,  "An  I  Apendix  |  or  |  Addition  of  Proofs  unto  my  thir- 
teenth Po-  I  sition,  Viz."  headpiece  two  lines  of  border  pieces, 
the  lower  one  inverted,  has  new  set  of  signature  letters,  and 


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various  misprints  in  the  paging,  marginal  notes;  "Finis"  near 
the  foot  of  the  page  between  two  rules;  verso  of  119  blank. 

Copies :  Boston  Athenaeum,  Boston  Public  Library,  and 
John  Carter  Brown  Library. 

On  the  titlepage  is  written :  "  Thomas  Shepard's 
Book :  given  me  by  ye  hble  Jn°  Leveret,  Governor  of 
ye  Massachusets  30.  6.  77: This  was  reprinted  in 
Volume  V.  of  the  "  Publications  of  the  Narragansett 
Club"  (Providence,  1872),  edited  by  J.  Lewis  Diman. 
A  fac-simile  of  the  titlepage,  by  type,  is  given  in  the 
Catalogue  of  the  John  Carter  Brown  Library  (Part  II. 
1600-1700,  p.  448),  No.  1 161.  In  the  copy  belonging 
to  the  Boston  Athenasum  the  title  begins  "  G.  Fox." 

The  Happiness  of  a  People  |  In  the  Wisdome  of  their  Rulers 
I  Directing  |  And  in  the  Obedience  of  their  Brethren  | 
Attending  |  Unto  what  Israel  ougho  [sic]  to  do :  |  Recom- 
mended in  a  I  Sermon  |  Before  the  Honourable  Governour 
and  Council,  and  |  the  Respected  Deputies  of  the  Matta- 
chusets  Colony  |  in  New-England.  |  Preached  at  Boston, 
May  3d.  1676.  being  the  day  of  |  Election  there.  |  —  | 
By  William  Hvbbard  Minister  of  Ipswich.  |  —  |  [Two 
lines  from  Exod.  xviii.  12 ;  one  line  from  Rom.  xiii.  1  ; 
two  lines  from  Psalms  xliv.  15.]  I  —  I  [Four  lines  of 
Latin.]  |  —  |  —  ||  Boston,  Printed  by  John  Foster.  1676. 
4to.  pp.  (1),  (6),  63.  Signatures,  A  to  I  in  fours.  Size, 
5I  x  81  inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  two  border  lines,  verso  blank ;  5  pp. 
"To  the  Honourable  |  John  Leveret  Esq:  |  Governour  of 
the  Mattachusets  Colony,  |  Together  with  the  rest  of  the 
Honourable    Council    of   Magistrates  |  of  the    said  Colony," 


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signed  "  W.  H.,"  headlines  "The  Epistle  Dedicatory";  I  p. 
ten  lines  of  errata,  between  two  lines  of  fine  border  pieces, 
the  lower  one  inverted ;  1-63,  text,  "  1  Chron.  12.  32.  .  .  . 
[Three  lines  from  the  Bible],"  large  ornamental  headpiece  ; 
"  Finis  "  at  foot  of  the  page  ;   1  p.  blank. 

Copies :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public  Li- 
brary, Connecticut  Historical  Society,  Harvard  College  Library, 
John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Lenox  Library,  and  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society. 

In  the  "Epistle  Dedicatory/'  Hubbard  says:  — 

I  never  intended  any  further  publication  than  the  preaching 
.  .  .  but  for  their  sakes  who  by  the  exigence  of  the  Times,  and 
present  distress  of  the  Warre,  were  denied  the  opportunity  to  be 
of  the  Auditory,  I  have  condescended  to  make  it  Legible. 

On  the  upper  margin  of  the  titlepage  of  a  copy  in 
the  Library  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  is 
written,  perhaps  in  the  author's  hand,  "For  Mr-  Simon 
Bradstreet  of  New-London." 

"Short  Catechism.    [By]  J.[ames]  Noyes    Boston  [i6]y6"  8vo. 
pp.  15. 

This  title  is  mentioned  in  Prince's  manuscript  catalogue. 

1677. 

An  I  Answer  |  to  a  |  Letter  |  Sent  from  |  Mr.  Coddington  of 
Rode-Island,  |  to  Governour  Leveret  of  Boston  |  in  what 
concerns  R.  W.  |  of  Providence.    [1677  or  1678.]  4to. 
pp.  10.    Signature  in  six.    Size,  5^  by  7 J  inches. 
Half-title,  below  a  large  ornamental  headpiece,  followed  by  1-9, 

text,  signed  by  "  R.  W."  at  the  foot  of  page  9  ;  10,  "  Postscript," 


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signed  by  "  R.  W.,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces  ;  blank  leaf 
at  end  to  make  up  signature. 

Copy:  Rhode  Island  Historical  Society. 

The  name  of  "T.  Fosters "  appears  on  page  1,  and 
the  endorsement  "  Roger  Williams  Printed  Answer  to 
Mr.  Coddingtons  Letter,"  in  a  contemporary  hand  on 
the  verso  of  the  last  blank  leaf.  Mr.  Clarence  S.  Brigham 
writes  me,  November  2,  1 905  :  — 

The  date  of  this  pamphlet,  of  which  no  other  copy  is  known, 
can  be  quite  closely  determined.  The  author  refers  to  King  Phil- 
ip's War  of  1675-76  as  an  event  of  the  recent  past;  refers  to 
"  Major  Winslow,  now  Governor  of  Plymouth  Colony  "  (his  date 
of  office  was  1673-1680);  refers  to  "Major  Cranston,  Deputy- 
Governor  of  Rhode  Island  "  (his  term  was  May  3,  1676-  Novem- 
ber 8,  1678) ;  refers  to  Governor  Leverett  of  Boston  (his  term  was 
1673-1679);  refers  to  his  own  narrative  against  the  Quakers  (his 
"  George  Fox  Digg'd  out  of  his  Burrowes,"  printed  by  John  Foster, 
Boston,  1676).  William  Coddington,  who  is  visited  with  consid- 
erable invective  in  the  tract,  died  November  1,  1678.  The  facts 
above  would  show  that  it  was  printed  in  1677  or  before  November, 
1678.  On  page  8  of  the  tract  Williams  makes  some  pointed  allu- 
sions to  Mr.  Coddington's  purchase  of  the  Island  of  Rhode  Island. 
It  is  significant  that  on  September  27,  1677,  Coddington  made 
deposition  as  to  his  original  purchase  of  Rhode  Island.  I  should 
think  that  the  date  of  1677  cou^  safely  be  assigned  to  the  tract. 
The  printer  (probably  Foster,  as  it  was  he  who  printed  Williams' 
previous  publications  of  1676)  could  undoubtedly  be  determined 
by  a  comparison  of  the  type  and  printer's  ornament  with  Foster's 
known  publications  of  1676-79. 

The  tract  was  reprinted  in  the  "  Proceedings  of  the 
Rhode  Island  Historical  Society,  1875-76/'  between  pages 


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54  and  55,  as  a  part  of  the  report  of  Edwin  M.  Stone, 
Librarian  of  that  Society,  who  givds  a  brief  account  of 
Foster  and  some  of  his  works. 

A  I  Brief    Rule  |  To    guide    the    Common-People    of  |  New- 
England  I  How  to  order  themselves  and  theirs  in  the  | 
Small   Pocks,   or   Measels.     [Imprint  at  bottom  of  the 
sheet]  Boston,  Printed  and  sold  by  John  Foster.  1677. 
Broadside.    Folio.    Size,   ii\  by   17I  inches. 
Heading,  followed  by  a  long  rule,  and  the  text  arranged  in 

two  columns  separated  by  a  perpendicular  rule,  signed  "  Thomas 

Thacher,"  and  dated  "  21.    11.    167I;  "  ;  surrounded  by  a  border 

line. 

Copy :  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

This  broadside  is  the  earliest  treatise  on  a  medical 
subject  published  in  this  country,  and  is  supposed  to  be 
unique.  A  heliotype  reproduction  will  be  found  in  my 
"Ten  Fac-simile  Reproductions "  (Boston,  1901,  p.  26), 
where  an  account  of  the  sheet  is  given. 

An  I  Historical   Discourse  |  Concerning    the  |  Prevalency  |  of  | 
Prayer  |  Wherein  is  shewed  that  New-Englands  late  De- 
liverance from  the  |  Rage  of  the  Heathen,  is  an  eminent 
Answer  of  Prayer.  |  —  |  By  Increase  Mather  |  Teacher  of 
a  Church  in  Boston  in  New-England  |  —  |  [One  line  from 
Psalms  cii.  18;  five  lines  from  James  v.  17,  18.]  |  —  | 
[Two  lines  of  Latin.]  |  —  |  — 1|  Boston,  |  Printed  and  sold 
by  John  Foster.   1677.     4to.     pp.  (1),  (2),  19.  Signa- 
tures, A  to  C  in  fours.    Size,  5I  by  7!  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  two  border  lines,  verso  blank ;  2 
pp.    "To  the  Reader/'  signed  "Increase  Mather,"  and  dated 
at  "  Boston,  N-E.  |  August,  16.   1677,"  has  large  ornamental 


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73 


headpiece;  1-18,  "An  |  Historical  Discovrse  |  Concerning  the 
Prevalency  of  |  Prayer,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  a 
rule,  and  a  line  of  similar  pieces  inverted,  running  headlines ; 
line  of  Hebrew  at  the  end  on  page  19,  marginal  notes;  1  p. 
blank ;   follows  "  A  Relation  of  the  Troubles." 

Copies:  Boston  Public  Library,  Library  of  the  late  Sumner 
Hollingsworth,  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Lenox  Library, 
and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

A  I  Narrative  |  of  the  Troubles  with  the  |  Indians  |  In  New- 
England,  from  the  first  planting  thereof  in  the  |  year  1607. 
to  this  present  year  1677.  But  chiefly  of  the  late  | 
Troubles  in  the  two  last  years  1675.  and  1676.  |  To 
which  is  added  a  Discourse  about  the  Warre  with  the  | 
Pequods  |  In  the  year  1637.  |  —  |  By  W.  Hubbard,  Min- 
ister of  Ipswich,  I  —  I  [Three  lines  from  Exod.  xvii.  14 ; 
two  lines  from  Numb.  xxi.  14;  one  line  from  Prov.  xxv. 
25.]  I  —  I  [Six  lines  of  Latin.]  |  —  |  Published  by  Author- 
ity. I  —  ||  Boston ;  Printed  by  John  Foster,  in  the  year 
1677.  4to.  pp.  (2),  (10),  132,  (7),  (6)-i2,  88.  Signatures, 
one  leaf,  a  in  six,  B  to  M  in  fours,  two  leaves,  m  in  two, 
O  to  R  in  fours,  S  in  two,  T  in  four,  n  in  four,  A  to  L 
in  fours.    Size,  5  by  61  inches. 

First  page  blank,  verso,  statement  signed  "  Simon  Brad- 
street.  I  Daniel  Denison.  |  Joseph  Dudley,"  and  dated  at  "  Bos- 
ton, March  29.  |  1677,"  saying  that  they  are  "deputed  by  the 
Governour  and  Councill  of  the  Massachusets  Colony  to  peruse, 
and  licence  the  same,  have  and  doe  accordingly  Order  it  to  be 
imprinted,  as  being  of  publick  benefit,  and  judge  the  Author 
to  have  deserved  due  acknowledgment  and  Thanks  for  the 
same,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  footpiece  a  line  of  sim- 
ilar pieces  inverted ;  titlepage  surrounded  by  two  border  lines, 
verso  blank;  4  pp.  "To  the  Honourable  |  John  Leveret  Esq; 
I  Governour   of  the   Colony   of  the    Massachusets ;  |  Josiah 


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VVinslow  Esq ;  |  Governour  of  the  Colony  of  Plimouth ;  | 
William  Leet  Esq ;  |  Governour  of  the  Colony  of  Connecti- 
cut." signed  "  William  Hubbard,"  and  dated  "  From  my 
Study  |  1 6th.  12th.  |  1676,"  catchword  "An,"  just  below  signa- 
ture on  last  page ;  2  pp.  "  An  Advertisement  to  the  Reader," 
headline  on  second  page  "  To  the  Reader,"  catchword  "  To " 
at  foot  of  second  page;  1  p.  "To  the  Reverend  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Hubbard  on  his  most  exact  |  History  of  New-Englands 
Troubles,"  signed  "J.  S."  (John  Sherman),  thirty-four  lines 
of  verse ;  2  pp.  "  Upon  |  The  elaborate  Survey  of  New- 
Englands  Passions  from  the  |  Natives  |  By  the  impartial  Pen  of 
that  Worthy  Divine  |  Mr.  William  Hubbard,"  signed  "  B.  T." 
(Benjamin  Tompson),  thirty-eight  lines  of  verse;  1  p.  "The 
Printer  to  the  Reader,"  followed  by  five  lines  of  explanation,  and 
seventeen  lines  of  errata;  1-115,  "A  |  Narrative  |  of  the  | 
Troubles  |  With  the  Indians  in  |  New-England,  |  From  the  first 
Planting  thereof  to  the  present  time,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border 
pieces,  the  pages  between  82  and  93,  numbered,  83  to  86  on  recto, 
and  the  fifth  leaf  87,  88,  running  headlines,  catchwords  near  foot 
of  page  115,  "A  Supple-,";  1  p.  blank;  1 17-132,  "A  |  Supple- 
ment I  Concerning  the  Warre  with  the  |  Pequods,"  headpiece  a 
line  of  border  pieces,  running  headlines ;  7  pp.  "  A  Table  shewing 
the  Towns  and  places  which  are  inhabited  by  |  the  English 
in  New-England :  those  that  are  marked  with  fi-  |  gures,  as  well 
as  expressed  by  their  names,  are  such  as  were  assaul-  |  ted  by 
the  Indians,  during  the  late  awfull  revolutions  of  provi-  |  dence," 
headlines,  catchwords  above  the  middle  of  last  page  "  A  Post-," 
the  map,  which  was  once  here  following  page  132,  wanting; 
(6)-n,  "A  Postscript";  11,  12,  "For  the  further  satisfaction 
of  the  Reader  concerning  the  per-  |  fidiousness  and  falsness  of 
our  Enemies,  and  the  Justice  of  our  |  Cause,  we  shall  close  this 
Narrative  with  the  Articles  which  |  Philip  Sachem  of  Pauka- 
maket,  or  Mount-hope,  subscribed  in  the  |  year,  167 1,"  separated 
from  the  preceding  part  by  a  rule,  "Finis,"  at  foot  of  page  12, 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  75 

followed  by  "Soli  Deo  gloria";  one  leaf  blank;  1-72  "A  | 
Narrative  |  of  the  |  Troubles  |  With  the  Indians  in  |  New-Eng- 
land, I  From  Pascataqua  to  Pemmaquid,"  headpiece  a  line  of 
border  pieces,  running  headlines,  catchword  "  To "  at  foot  of 
page  72  between  two  rules;  73-88,  further  text  and  descrip- 
tion, headpiece  two  lines  of  acorn-shaped  border  pieces,  the 
lower  one  inverted,  separated  by  a  rule ;  "  Errata "  on  lower 
half  of  page  88,  followed  by  twelve  lines,  and  "Finis"  between 
two  rules. 

Copies  :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public  Library, 
Harvard  College  Library,  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Lenox 
Library,  and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

The  copy  described  above  belongs  to  the  Historical 
Society,  and  differs  slightly  from  the  copies  mentioned 
below. 

I  am  greatly  indebted  to  Wilberforce  Eames,  A.  M., 
the  accomplished  bibliographer  of  the  Lenox  Library, 
New  York,  for  a  comparative  description  of  two  issues 
of  Hubbard's  Narrative  from  Foster's  press.  He  has  made 
such  a  careful  and  critical  examination  of  the  subject  that 
I  consider  myself  fortunate  to  be  able  to  use  the  result  of 
his  work  in  connection  with  this  Bibliographical  List. 
Under  date  of  July  8,  1909,  he  writes  me  from  the  Lenox 
Library  as  follows :  — 

A  comparison  of  two  copies  of  the  Boston  (1677)  edition  of 
Hubbard's  Narrative  in  the  Lenox  Library  shows  the  following 
differences :  — 

Copy  A,  the  earlier  of  the  two  issues,  is  complete  with  four 
leaves  in  sheet  M  (pp.  81-88)  of  the  first  part.  The  two  inner 
leaves  of  this  sheet,  pp.  83-86,  marked  M  2  and  M  3,  were  can- 


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celled  before  many  copies  had  been  bound  up,  and  four  new  leaves 
were  printed  and  substituted  in  their  place,  as  in  copy  B  and  in 
most  other  copies.  The  original  two  leaves  contain  a  summary 
of  events  from  April  27  to  June  30,  at  Hassanemesit,  Rehoboth, 
Washacom  Ponds,  Brookfield,  Hadly  and  Dearfield,  closing  with 
the  first  portion  of  Captain  Henchman's  letter  to  the  Governour 
and  Council  of  the  Massachusets,  dated  from  Malbrough,  June 
the  30,  1676. 

In  copy  B,  the  later  of  the  two  issues,  the  four  new  leaves  are 
marked  thus  :  —  83,  verso  not  paged,  84,  verso  not  paged,  85,  verso 
paged  86,  and  one  leaf  not  paged  on  either  side.  The  sheet  marks 
are  M  2,  M  3,  M  4  and  one  not  marked.  The  new  matter  given 
in  these  substituted  four  leaves  relates  to  the  attack  by  the  Indians 
on  Plimouth,  May  1 1  and  following  days ;  the  defection  of  the 
Wamesit  Indians  and  their  attacks  on  Andover  and  Chelmsford  ; 
the  burning  of  Thomas  Eames's  house  at  Sudbury  ;  the  expedition 
of  Capt.  Holioke  of  Springfield ;  and  the  expedition  of  the  men 
of  Hadly,  Hatfield  and  Northampton  against  the  Indians  of  the 
Upper  Falls  on  May  18.  Most  of  the  narrative  of  the  cancelled 
pages  is  reprinted  and  incorporated  in  the  new  pages,  but  Capt. 
Henchman's  letter  is  condensed  from  thirty-three  lines,  including 
the  heading,  to  a  brief  summary  of  nine  lines,  which  are  made  to 
connect  with  the  concluding  part  of  the  letter  on  page  87. 

There  are  no  pages  89-92  and  no  sheet  N  in  either  copy  A 
or  copy  B.  Page  88  ends  in  an  unfinished  sentence  with  the 
catchword  "  next."  In  place  of  sheet  N,  which  should  properly 
follow,  there  is  sheet  "  m  "  in  two  leaves,  paged  93-96,  sheet  O 
following  with  page  97.  Although  page  93  starts  with  a  new 
paragraph,  the  first  word  of  which  is  "  Next,"  the  connection  with 
the  unfinished  sentence  on  page  88  is  not  very  clear  at  first  glance. 
The  London  edition,  however,  which  is  a  page  for  page  reprint  of 
the  Boston  edition,  makes  the  two  lines  connect  properly  by  a 
slight  change  in  the  punctuation.  This  gap  in  the  pagination  and 
the  substitution  of  sheet  m  suggest  the  possibility  of  a  still  earlier 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  77 

issue  of  the  book  containing  sheet  N  with  the  full  number  of  pages, 
89-96.  If  there  was  such  an  issue,  however,  it  is  doubtful  if  any 
copy  was  allowed  to  pass  into  circulation,  as  there  must  have  been 
good  reason  for  cancelling  the  four  pages  which  are  omitted. 

In  the  list  of  errata  of  both  parts,  following  the  commendatory 
verses  at  the  front,  is  the  following  correction  :  "  In  the  second  Part 
p.  81.  between  the  seventh  and  eighth  line,  a  whole  line  is  casually 
omitted  in  most  of  the  Copyes  viz.  As  for  predictions  or  Presages 
of  the  present  troubles."  Copy  A  is  one  of  those  in  which  the 
said  line  does  not  appear,  there  being  blank  space  for  a  whole  line 
between  the  two  paragraphs.  In  copy  B  the  line  is  inserted,  I 
think  without  resetting  the  page,  and  it  reads  thus:  "As  for  pre- 
dictions, or  presages  of  these  late  Troubles,"  ending  with  a  comma 
and  not  quite  rilling  the  line. 

The  following  typographical  errors  are  found  in  copies  A  and 
B.  Page  37  is  marked  3  in  both  copies,  the  figure  7  having  dropped 
out ;  pages  42  and  43  are  marked  and  £^  in  copy  A,  and  43 
and  42  in  copy  B  ;  the  headline  on  page  94  is  wrongly  spelled 
Marrative  in  both  copies,  instead  of  Narrative.  In  the  second 
part  sheets  B  3  and  F  3  are  wrongly  marked  A  3  and  F  4,  respec- 
tively, in  both  copies;  page  81  is  wrongly  paged  82  in  copy  A, 
but  is  correctly  paged  in  copy  B,  this  being  the  page  in  which  the 
omitted  line  was  inserted  ;  page  88  ends  with  a  list  of  errata  in  ten 
lines  in  copy  A,  which  is  increased  to  twelve  lines  in  copy  B  by 
the  addition  of  four  more  corrections  to  be  made  on  pages  82,  83 
and  87. 

I  have  examined  three  other  copies  of  the  Boston  edition,  in 
private  hands,  which  I  will  designate  as  copies  C,  D,  and  E. 
Copy  C  was  bought  at  Sotheby's  in  London,  December  14-15, 
1906,  and  is  perfect.  Copy  D  was  bought  in  the  Sewall  sale  at 
Bangs  &  Co.  in  New  York  in  1896,  and  lacks  all  of  the  second 
part.  Copy  E  was  bought  in  the  Moore  sale  at  Bangs  &  Co.  in 
New  York,  February  5-6,  1894,  and  lacks  beginning  and  end. 
All  three  copies  have  page  37  correctly  marked;  copies  C  and  E 


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have  pages  42  and  43  marked  43  and  42,  and  copy  D  has  them 
marked  and  £b ;  all  three  copies  have  the  amplified  sheet  M  as  in 
copy  B,  but  in  copies  C  and  E  the  third  and  fourth  of  the  substi- 
tuted leaves  are  paged  85  and  86,  respectively,  on  the  recto ,  the 
verso  being  unpaged,  while  copy  D  agrees  with  copy  B  in  the  mark- 
ing of  these  pages ;  copies  C  and  D  have  the  headline  on  page  94 
correctly  spelled  Narrative,  while  copy  E  has  the  wrong  spelling 
Marrative ;  copies  C  and  E  have  sheets  B  3  and  F  3  of  the  second 
part  wrongly  marked,  as  in  copies  A  and  B ;  and  copy  C  has 
page  81  correctly  paged,  with  the  added  line,  and  the  twelve  lines 
of  errata  on  page  88,  as  in  copy  B. 

The  London  edition  follows  copy  B  in  its  reprint  of  the  first 
part,  and  corrects  the  pagination  of  pages  83-92,  so  that  there  is 
no  gap ;  but  it  conforms  to  copy  A  in  the  omission  of  an  entire 
line  on  page  81  of  the  second  part.    It  omits  both  lists  of  errata. 

With  regard  to  the  proper  maps  belonging  to  the  Boston  and 
London  editions  respectively,  my  own  opinion  fully  coincides  with 
that  of  Joseph  Sabin  and  other  booksellers  who  have  had  good 
opportunities  for  examining  different  copies  of  both  editions.  I 
know  of  four  copies  of  the  Boston  edition  which  have  or  did  have 
the  "  White  Hills  "  map  in  its  proper  place  facing  page  1,  with  the 
original  stitching;  and  I  know  of  a  larger  number  of  copies  of  the 
London  edition  containing  the  "  Wine  Hills  "  map,  in  similar  con- 
dition. Most  other  copies  of  both  editions  have  been  rebound, 
and  either  lack  the  map  or  have  it  inserted  out  of  place.  This  is 
the  case  with  the  Lenox  copies  of  both  editions.  Copy  A  has  the 
"  White  Hills "  map  inserted  in  front  of  the  title ;  and  copy  B 
has  the  "  Wine  Hills  "  map  re-folded,  but  showing  the  marks  of 
the  original  folding,  mounted  on  a  fly  leaf  before  the  license  leaf. 
The  Lenox  copy  of  the  London  edition  lacks  the  map,  but 
shows  the  impress  at  page  1,  where  it  once  was.  Mr.  Sabin 
states  clearly  that  as  the  mercantile  value  of  the  London  edition 
is  less  than  that  of  the  Boston  edition,  the  map  is  often  taken 
out  of  the  former  to  insert  in  the  latter. 


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Mr.  Sibley,  in  his  Harvard  Graduates  (I.  61),  says  that 
the  initials  "J.  S."  stand  probably  for  Jeremiah  Shepard,  a 
graduate  in  the  Class  of  1669  ;  and  more  than  twenty  years 
ago  (November,  1888),  in  some  remarks  before  the  Histori- 
cal Society  on  John  Foster's  Map  of  New  England  printed 
in  the  Proceedings  (second  series,  IV.  199),  I  followed 
Mr.  Sibley's  supposition.  Since  then  I  have  seen  a  copy 
of  this  edition  of  the  Narrative  which  belonged  to  the  late 
Sumner  Hollingsworth,  of  Boston,  that  contains  many  in- 
teresting notes  in  the  handwriting  of  the  Rev.  Edward  Tay- 
lor, and  also  a  letter  from  him,  dated  at  "  Westfield  1 5  h  8? 
1679."  In  one  of  these  notes  it  is  said  that  the  initials 
"J.  S."  stand  for  "John  Sherman  doubtless."  As  both 
Hubbard  and  Taylor  were  graduates  of  the  College,  and 
both  were  ministers,  they  undoubtedly  knew  each  other 
well ;  and  for  that  reason  I  incline  now  to  the  opinion  that 
Sherman  was  the  writer  of  the  verses.  The  letter  men- 
tioned above  is  addressed  to  "Reverend  &  Hon?  Mr.  Sfc 
Nicholas,  together  with  my  Hon?  &  Rev?  Master  Mr. 
Loseby  "  ;  and  there  is  some  reason  to  think  that  these  two 
persons  were  the  Regicides  then  at  Hadley.  It  is  probable 
that  the  map  in  the  London  edition  was  placed  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  book.  A  copy  of  the  "Narrative"  in  the 
Lenox  Library  has  pages  83  to  86  of  the  first  part  in  two 
leaves.  In  a  copy  belonging  to  the  Boston  Public  Library, 
on  the  fly-leaf  before  page  1  of  the  last  part  is  written 
"Henry:  Somerby  his  Book  |  The  23,  of  december : 
1690." 


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JOHN  FOSTER 


A  Relation  |  Of  the  Troubles  which  have  hapned  in  |  New- 
England,  |  By  reason  of  the  Indians  there.  |  From  the  Year 
1614.  to  the  Year  1675.  I  —  I  Wherein  the  frequent  Conspir- 
acyes  of  the  Indians  to  cutt  off  the  |  English,  and  the  won- 
derfull  providence  of  God,  in  disappointing  |  their  devices,  is 
declared.  |  Together  with  an  Historical  Discourse  concerning 
the  I  Prevalency  of  Prayer;  shewing  that  New  Englands  | 
late  deliverance  from  the  Rage  of  the  Heathen  is  an  eminent 
I  Answer  of  Prayer.  |  —  |  By  Increase  Mather  |  Teacher  of 
a  Church  in  Boston  in  New-England.  |  —  |  [Two  lines  from 
Job  viii.  8  ;  two  lines  from  Psalms  cxi.  2  ;  two  lines  from 
Joel  i.  3.]  I  —  I  [Three  lines  of  Latin.]  |  —  |  —  ||  Boston, 
I  Printed  and  sold  by  John  Foster.    1677.   4to*    PP-  (*)> 
(4),  76.    Signatures,  A  to  K  in  fours,  L  in  two?  first  leaf  or 
A  wanting.    Size,  5I  by  7I  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  two  border  lines,  verso  blank  ;  4  pp. 
"  To  the  Reader/'  signed  "  Increase  Mather,"  and  dated  at  "  Bos- 
ton N.  E.  I  Sept.  14.  1677,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  a 
rule,  and  a  line  of  similar  pieces  inverted  ;  list  of  "  Errata  "  at  end 
of  Preface,  three  lines  between  two  rules ;  1-26,  "  A  |  Relation  | 
of  the  first  troubles  in  |  New-England  j  By  reason  of  the  Indians 
there,"  large  ornamental  headpiece;  27-76,  "A  |  Brief  History 
I  Of  the  War  with  the  Pequot  Indians  in  |  New-England;  Anno 
1637",  "  Finis "  just  above  the  middle  of  the  page  between 
two  rules ;  followed  by  "  An  Historical  Discourse,"  with  new 
signature  letters. 

Copies  :  Boston  Public  Library,  Library  of  the  late  Sumner 
Hollingsworth,  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Lenox  Library,  and 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

Renewal  of  Covenant  the  great  Duty  |  incumbent  on  decaying 
or  distressed  |  Chvrches.  |  —  |  A  Sermon  |  Concerning  Re- 
newing of  Covenant  with  God  in  Christ,  |  Preached  at  Dor- 
chester in  New-England,  the  21.  Day  |  of  the  1.  Moneth 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  81 


1677.  being  a  Day  of  |  Humiliation  |  There,  on  that  Oc- 
casion. I  —  I  By  Increase  Mather,  Teacher  of  |  a  Church 
in  Boston.  |  —  |  [Three  lines  from  Deut.  xxix.   1  ;  two 
lines  from  Jer.  1.  5.]  |  —  |  [Eight  lines  of  Latin.]  |  —  || 
Boston ;  |  Printed  by  J.  F.  for  Henry  Phillips,  and  are 
to  be  sold  at  his  |  Shop  in  the  West  end  of  the  Town- 
house in  Boston.    1677.   4to.    pp.  (1),  (5),  21.  Signatures, 
A  to  D  in  fours.    Size,  5I  by  7  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  double  border  line,  verso  blank ; 
5  pp.  "To  the  Church  of  Christ  in  |  Dorchester  |  Dearly  Be- 
loved in  the  Lord  Jesus,"  signed  "  Yours  in  the  Lord  alwayes 
I  Increase  Mather,"  and  dated  "Boston,  |  22d.  of  3.  Moneth,  | 
1677,"  headpiece,  a  line  of  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of 
similar  pieces  inverted,  headlines,  marginal  notes ;   1  p.  blank ; 
1-21,  "  Neh.  9.  38.    And  because  of  all  this  we  |  make  a  sure 
Covenant,"  ending  on  page  21  with  a  line  "  Tibi  Domine"  near 
the  middle  of  the.  page,  marginal  notes  ;  verso  of  page  21  blank  ; 
one  leaf  wanting. 

Copies :  Boston  Public  Library  and  Library  of  the  late 
Sumner  Hollingsworth. 

1678. 

Abraham  in  Arms  ;  |  —  |  or  |  The  first  Religious  |  General  | 
with  his  I  Army  |  Engaging  in  |  A  War  |  For  which  he  had 
wisely  prepared,  and  by  |  which,  not  only  an  eminent  |  Vic- 
tory I  Was  obtained,  but  |  A  Blessing  |  gained  also.  |  Deliv- 
ered in  an  Artillery-Election-Sermon,  June,  3.  1678.  |  —  | 
By  S.  N.  [Samuel  Nowell]  |  —  ||  Boston ;  |  Printed  by  John 
Foster,  1678.  4to.  pp.  (1),  (1),  19.  Signatures,  A  to  C 
in  fours.    Size,  6  by  7!  inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  fine  at  the 
sides,  and  larger  at  the  top  and  bottom,  verso  blank ;  1  p.  "  To 
the  Reader,"  signed  "  Samuel  Nowell,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border 
pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of  similar  pieces  inverted ;  1  p,  blank ; 

6 


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1-19,  text,  "  Gen.  14.  14.  .  .  .  [Three  lines  from  the  Bible]," 
large  ornamental  headpiece ;  "  Finis  "  between  two  rules,  near  the 
foot  of  the  page. 

Copies  :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public  Library, 
and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

This  was  printed  from  "  Notes,  taken  by  one  of  the 
Auditors.' '  Near  the  foot  of  the  titlepage  of  the  His- 
torical Society's  copy  is  written,  "  Nathanael  Barnes  |  Ex 
dono  Pen  Townsand."  The  Antiquarian  Society's  copy 
has  the  signature  "William  Griggs,  1678,"  and  that  of 
"M  Byles,"  written  near  the  top  of  the  titlepage. 

An  Advertisement.  Broadside.  []t 678.] 

Heading,  followed  by  text,  signed  by  "  Simon  Bradstreet,  | 
John  Saffin,  |  Elisha  Hutchinson,"  and  "  Dated  at  Boston,  30th 
July,  1678."  It  relates  to  "the  lands  of  Narragansett,  and 
Niantick  countryes,  and  parts  adjacent,"  and  speaks  of  them  as 
"  places  very  pleasant  and  fertile,  fit  and  commodious  for  Plan- 
tation, and  several  townships  ;  the  true  and  legal  right  whereof 
belongs  to  certain  gentlemen  in  New  England  (the  most  part 
of  them  dwelling  within  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts),  by  pur- 
chase from  the  chief  Sachims,  that  were  sole  proprietors  of  the 
same,"  which  purchase  was  allowed  by  the  Commissioners  of  the 
United  Colonies,  and  recorded  "  in  the  Book  of  Records  for 
the  Colony  of  Connecticot,  under  which  government  and  juris- 
diction the  land  aforesaid  lyeth " ;  the  hand-bill  then  notifies 
all  persons  who  are  "  desirous  to  settle  themselves  in  the  regular 
way  of  townships  on  the  said  lands,  that  they  may  please  to  apply 
themselves  to  the  subscribers  hereof  in  Boston,  who  are  by  the 
said  gentlemen,  the  proprietors,  chosen  and  appointed  a  Com- 
mittee to  act." 

Copy :  Public  Record  Office,  London. 


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83 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Assembly  of  the  Colony  of 
Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plantations  for  August  28, 
1678,  printed  in  the  Records  (III.  18),  it  was 

Voted,  There  was  a  printed  paper,  entitled  an  advertisement, 
subscribed  by  Simon  Bradstreet,  John  Saffin,  and  Elisha  Hutchin- 
son, dated  in  Boston,  the  30th  of  July,  1678,  stileing  themselves 
a  Committee,  to  act  in  behalfe  of  certaine  gentlemen  of  New 
England,  in  the  disposition  of  the  lands  of  the  Narragansett 
and  Niantick  countrys ;  by  them  untruly  declared  to  be  under 
the  government  and  jurisdiction  of  the  Collony  of  Connecticut 
.  .  .  which  said  paper  was  by  said  John  Saffin  sett  up  in  the 
towne  of  Newport,  whoe  forthwith  fled  off  the  Island  from  the 
hands  of  justice,  &c.  .  .  . 

This  is  mentioned  by  Samuel  Greene  Arnold  in  his 
History  of  Rhode  Island  (I.  445),  who  says  that  the 
hand-bill  "was  struck  off  in  Boston/'  A  copy  is  pre- 
served among  the  New  England  Papers  (III.  46),  in  the 
Public  Record  Office  in  London.  The  description  and 
collation  given  above  are  taken  from  the  Rhode  Island 
Records  (III.  18),  where  the  advertisement  is  printed  in 
full. 

1678.  I  —  I  An  I  Almanack  |  of  j  Ccelestial  motions  for  the  year 
of  the  I  Christian  Epocha  |  1678  |  Being  (in  one  account) 
third  after  |  Leap-year,  and  from  the  Creation  |  5627.  |  —  | 
The  Vulgar  Notes  are  | 

Golden  numb.  7.^  fEpact  17. 
Cycle  of  the  Sun  7  >  <  Rom.  Indict.  1. 
Dominic.  Let.     F.  J    I  Num.  direct.  10. 


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Calculated  for  the  longitude  of  315  gr.  |  and  42  gr.  30  min. 

north  latitude.  |  —  |  J.  F.  |  —  |  —  ||  Printed  by  J.  Foster, 

for  John  Vsher  of  |  Boston.    1678.    i6mo.  pp.  (1),  (30). 

No  signature  letters.  Size,  3I  by  5I  inches. 
Titlepage  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso  blank ; 
1  p.  "  1678.  Dominion  of  Moon  in  Man's  Body  |  (according  to 
Astronomers),"  and  a  cut  of  a  human  figure  with  the  signs  of  the 
Zodiac,  followed  by  twelve  explanatory  lines  of  poetry ;  24  pp. 
March  to  February,  beginning  on  the  verso  of  the  second  leaf 
of  the  almanac,  with  two  pages  devoted  to  each  month,  the  one 
at  the  left  showing  the  moon's  changes,  the  aspects  of  the  planets, 
the  sitting  of  the  Courts,  two  columns  at  the  right,  the  "  suns 
places,"  and  the  tc  suns  rising,"  the  right-hand  page,  at  the  top, 
"  The  moon  is  with  "  and  names  of  five  planets,  followed  by  a 
column  at  the  left  of  the  "  Full  Sea  Boston,"  and  a  vacant  space 
at  the  right  like  that  in  the  almanac  of  1679,  w^tn  on^Y  tne  month 
and  the  year  given  at  the  top ;  1  p,  "  Directions  for  the  Use  of 
the  Kalendar,"  from  which  the  first  paragraph  and  part  of  the 
second  are  here  given  in  order  to  show  that  the  imperfect  copy 
of  the  almanac  for  1679  in  the  Boston  Public  Library  was  pre- 
pared by  the  same  author. 

AFter  the  Aspects  of  the  Sun  and  Moon  on  the  top  of  the  page  on 
the  left  hand,  and  the  Conjunction  of  the  moon  with  the  other 
planets  on  the  other  page,  you  have  for  every  moneth  nine  Columns, 
containing,  1.  The  day  of  the  Moneth.  2  The  day  of  the  week,  the  use 
whereof  is  to  find  the  day  of  the  moneth.  3  Some  principal  Aspects, 
Courts  &c.  4  The  Suns  place.  5  The  moons  place.  6  The  time  of 
the  Suns  rising ;  the  time  of  setting  may  be  found  by  subtracting  the  time 
of  rising  from  twelve,  what  remains  is  the  time  of  the  Suns  setting. 

On  the  right-hand  page  you  have  the  day  of  the  moneth,  and  the  time 
of  Full  Sea  or  high  water  at  Boston  :  The  use  whereof  is  to  know  the  time 
of  the  tide,  .  .  . 

;  1  p.  "Of  the  I  Eclipses  |  of  this  Year,  1678,"  at  the  end 
of  which,  March  25  about  conjunction;  Jupiter  and  Mars;  3  pp. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST 


1678. 


ALMANACK 

O  F 

Cacleftial  motions  for  the  year  of  the 

Chrirtian  Epocba 

!  67  J, 

Being  (in  our  account)  third  after 
Leap-year,  and  frtfm  the  Creation 
 5    6   1  7-  

The  Vulgar  Notes  are 
Golden  numb.  7..  ^  r  Epa&  17. 
Cycle  of  the  Sun        RwnlndiA.  1. 
Dominic  Let.  F.i  C  Num.direcT:.  10. 

Calculated  for  the  longitude  of  MS  gr- 
and 42  gr.  30  min.  north  latitude* 

h  F. 


8fr 


Printed  by  f.Fofter, for  f f /&«•  of 
j|        '  Befit*.  i*7$. 


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"1678.  I  The  Course  of  the  Spring-tides  this  year/*  headpiece  a 
line  of  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of  similar  pieces  inverted, 
headlines  on  second  and  third  pages,  followed  by  "  Finis  "  below 
the  middle  of  the  third  page  between  two  rules,  below  which  are 
three  lines  correcting  a  mistake  about  the  full  moon  in  July.  In 
the  lower  part  of  the  second  page  appears  "  The  Spring-Tides 
will  this  year  be  as  followed/'  March  to  July  on  second  page, 
and  August  to  February  on  the  third  page. 
Copy  :  American  Antiquarian  Society. 

A  Fast  of  God's  chusing,  |  plainly  opened,  |  For  the  help  of 
those  poor  in  spirit,  whose  |  hearts  are  set  to  seek  the  Lord 
their  God  |  in  New-England,  in  the  solemn  |  Ordinance  of 
I  A  Fast  I  Wherein  is  shewed  1.  The  nature  of  such  a 
Fast.    2.  The  |  Testimony  God  will  give  thereunto  of  his 
gracious  acceptation  |  3.  The  special  Seasons  wherein  God 
will  bear  witness  to  such  |  A  Fast.    4.  Some  helps  to  Faith 
that  it  shall  be  so.  |  5.    Why  such  a  Fast  is  so  acceptable 
and  successfull.  |  6.  How  much  this  concerns  Gods  people 
in  New-England.  |  Preached  on  a  Fast  called  by  publick 
Au-  I  thority,  On  26.  1  .  74.  |  —  |  By  Thomas  Thacher, 
Pastor  of  a  Church  in  Boston.  |  —  |  —  ||  Boston,  |  Printed 
by  John  Foster,  1678.    4to.    pp.  (1),  (4),  25.  Signatures, 
A  to  D  in  fours.    Size,  5I  by  7!  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  border  line,  with  an  extra  line  at 
the  top,  verso  blank;  4  pp.  "To  the  Reader,"  signed  "Increase 
Mather,"  and  dated   at  "  Boston  2.  mon.  |  1678,"  catchword 
"Isaiah"  just  below  Mather's  name,  headpiece  a  line  of  border 
pieces  and  a  similar  line  inverted,  headlines,  inarginal  notes ;  1- 
24,  text,  "Isaiah.  58.  5,  6.  [and  two  lines  from  the  Bible]," 
headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of  similar 
pieces  inverted,  headlines ;  "  Finis "  at  the  end  near  the  foot  of 
the  page ;  1  p.  blank. 

Copies :  Harvard  College  Library  and  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST 


87 


On  the  lower  part  of  the  titlepage  of  the  Historical 
Society's  copy  is  written,  "  Jo.  Baily's  Booke  N.  E.  March. 
10.  8i";  and  in  the  other  copy  there  are  traces  of  the 
signature  of  Rev.  William  Adams,  of  Dedham,  left  by 
the  trimming  of  the  binder. 

In  the  preface  "To  the  Reader," Mather  says:  — 

the  Sermon  .  .  .  was  delivered  some  years  agoe,  even  a  little  be- 
fore our  late  troubles.  The  Lord  knew  that  Boston,  yea,  that  New- 
England  would  have  cause  for  many  dayes  of  Humiliation,  .  .  . 
Some  that  were  affected  in  hearing  the  Word  preached,  and 
that  did  in  short  hand  take  what  was  delivered,  have  Importuned 
the  Reverend  Author  to  give  way  unto  its  publication  unto 
whose  desires  he  hath  at  last  conceded. 

[The  I  Grand  Imposter  Discovered:  or,]  T[he  Quakers  Doc- 
trine weighed  in]  |  th[e  Ballance  and  found  wanting ;]  |  A 
[Poem,]  I  By  [way  of  Dialogue  wherein]  |  th[eir  chief  and 
most  concerning  |  Principles  are  laid  down,  |  and  by  the 
authority  of  |  God's  Holy  Word  clearly  refuted.]  |  By  B.  K.  || 
Boston,  Printed  by  John  Foster.  |  1678.  8vo.  pp.  (1),  (6), 
106.  Signatures,  one  leaf,  and  A  to  G  in  eights.  Size,  3^ 
by  5  J  inches. 

Titlepage,  supplied  in  writing,  verso  blank;  4  pp.  "The 
Epistle  I  to  the  |  Reader,"  headpiece  two  lines  of  border  pieces 
the  lower  one  inverted,  headlines,  a  rule  at  foot  of  the  last  page; 
2  pp.  "  An  Epistolatory  word  to  those  called  Quakers,"  catch- 
word "A"  at  foot  of  second  page;  1-106,  "A  Dialogue  between 
a  Young  Professor  and  |  a  Quaker,"  headpiece  like  the  last,  run- 
ning headlines  ;  "  Finis  "  at  the  foot  of  the  page  below  a  rule. 

Copy  :  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

This  book  lacks  the  titlepage,  with  the  exception 
of  a  stub,  though  otherwise  it  is  complete  a^id  in  fair 


88  JOHN  FOSTER 

condition,  and  in  the  original  binding.  A  clew  as  to 
the  year  of  publication  is  found  in  a  letter  written  by 
Joseph  Eliot,  minister  of  Guilford,  Connecticut,  to  In- 
crease Mather,  and  printed  in  the  Collections  (fourth  series, 
VIII.  377)  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  under 
date  of  July  17,  1678.    The  allusion  is  as  follows:  — 

I  have  lately  seen  a  smal  treatise  in  verse,  such  as  it  is, 
not  over  Heliconian,  yet  honest,  printed  at  Boston,  against  the 
Quakers,  by  one  B.  K.  whose  name  I  cannot  unridle. 

The  book  bears  all  the  earmarks  of  Foster's  work. 
Without  doubt  the  initials  "  B.  K."  stand  for  Benjamin 
Keach  (1 640-1 704),  a  Baptist  minister  of  London  and 
a  prolific  author,  who  had  already  written  on  the  subject 
of  the  Quakers.  In  the  Bodleian  Library,  Oxford,  is  a 
copy  of  this  poem,  with  the  imprint, 

London,  Printed  for  B.  Harris  at  the  Stationers 
Arms  in  Sweetings  Rents  by  the  Royal 
Exchange.    M.  DC.  LXXV. 

with  a  pagination  "  193  "  to  "  298  "  and  three  imper- 
fect leaves  showing  that  it  is  the  latter  part  of  a  larger 
work,  perhaps  Reach's  "  War  with  the  Devil."  The 
title  of  the  poem  has  been  furnished  me  by  F.  Madan, 
M.  A.,  Acting  Librarian  of  the  Bodleian  Library,  and 
I  wish  here  to  acknowledge  my  obligation  to  him  for 
the  courtesy.  From  this  copy  I  have  constructed  a 
titlepage,  which  may  be  correct,  as  by  a  slightly  differ- 
ent   lining    it    agrees    with    the   few    letters,    or  parts 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  89 

of  letters,  left  on  the  stub  mentioned  above.  This 
description  takes  the  place  of  the  one  given  in  my 
"Early  American  Imprints "  (Cambridge,  1895,  P-  83). 

The  Harmony  of  the  Gospels,  |  in  the  Holy  |  History  |  of  the 
I  Humiliation  and  Sufferings  |  of  |  Jesus  Christ,  |  from  his 
I  Incarnation  |  to  his  |  Death  and  Burial.  |  —  |  Published 
by  John  Eliot,  Teacher  |  of  the  Church  in  Roxbury.  |  —  | 
[Two  lines  from  Acts  iii.  18.]  |  —  |  —  ||  Boston;  |  Printed 
by  John  Foster,  in  the  Year  1678.  4to.  pp.  (4),  131. 
Signatures,  two  leaves,  and  A  to  Q  in  fours,  R  in  two.  Size, 
5I  by  7I  inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  fine  at  the 
sides  and  larger  at  the  top  and  bottom,  verso,  statement  concern- 
ing the  work,  ending  "and  therefore  do  affix  our  Imprimatvr 

Thomas  Thacher.  Vrian  Oakes. 

James  Allen.  Increase  Mather," 

a  line  of  border  pieces  above  and  one  below  inverted ;  1  pp. 
"  The  Contents,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  followed  on 
the  second  page  by  "Errata"  in  five  lines,  between  two  rules; 
1-131,  "The  Harmony  of  the  |  Gospels  |  in  the  holy  History 
of  the  Humiliation  |  and  Sufferings  of  |  Jesus  Christ,  |  From  his 
Incarnation  to  his  Death  and  Burial,"  large  ornamental  headpiece, 
various  headlines;  "  Finis"  near  the  foot  of  the  page  between  two 
rules,  followed  by  a  line  of  errata ;  1  p.  blank. 

Copies :  Boston  Public  Library,  Congregational  Library, 
John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Lenox  Library,  and  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society. 

On  the  titlepage  of  the  Historical  Society's  copy  is 
written,  "  Jo.  Baily's  Booke.  |  Bestowed  vpon  me  by  the 
Revered  Author  |  Feb.  5*?  8|.  N.  E."  ;  also  the  auto- 
graph signature  "  Oxenbridge  Thacher." 


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JOHN  FOSTER 


[Report  of  the  Trustees,  Anthony  Stoddard,  John  Joyliffe 
and  John  Richards,  appointed  by  the  Governor  and  Council 
on  May  30,  1678  to  receive  contributions  from  the  towns 
in  the  Colony  for  the  redemption  and  release  of  captives 
taken  by  the  Indians  at  Hatfield  on  September  19,  1677. 
Boston,  1678.]  Broadside. 

Drake,  in  his  History  of  Boston  (p.  430),  says  of  this 
handbill :  — 

The  Trustees  printed  their  Report  on  one  side  of  an  ordinary 
sheet,  of  that  day,  but  one  copy  of  which  has  ever  been  heard 
of  or  seen  by  me. 

Haven,  in  his  list  of"  Ante-Revolutionary  Publications/' 
gives  Boston  as  the  place  of  imprint.  It  is  not  now  known 
where  this  copy  may  be  found.  The  order  appointing  the 
Trustees,  and  fixing  the  6th  of  June  as  a  day  of  fasting  and 
humiliation,  in  the  Colony,  for  the  release  of  the  captives, 
was  passed  by  the  Governor  and  Magistrates  on  May  30, 
1678.  Papers  relating  to  the  affair,  giving  the  names  of 
the  captives  and  the  amount  subscribed,  can  be  found  in 
the  Massachusetts  Archives  (LXIX.  204-2o6a). 

For  want  of  the  original  heading,  this  title  is  made  up 
to  describe  the  purpose  of  the  sheet. 

A  Serious  |  Exhortation  |  to  the  |  Present  and  Succeeding  | 
Generation  |  in  |  New-England,  |  Earnestly  calling  upon  all 
to  endeavour  that  the  Lords  Gracious  |  Presence  may  be 
continued  with  Posterity.  |  Being  the  substance  of  the  Last 
Sermons  preached  |  —  |  By  Mr.  Eleazer  Mather,  late  Pas- 
tor of  I  the  Church  in  Northampton  in  New-England.  |  —  | 
The  second  Edition  |  —  |  [Five  lines  from  Judg.  ii.  10, 
17  ;  six  lines  from  Psal.  lxxviii.  3,  4,  5.]  |  —  ||  Boston,  | 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST 


Printed  by  John  Foster,  1678.  4to.  pp.  (1),  (2),  31.  Sig- 
natures, a  in  two,  A  to  D  in  fours.  Size,  5!  by  7I  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  border  line,  verso  blank ;  2  pp. 
"  To  the  Reader,"  signed  "  Increase  Mather,"  and  dated  at 
"Boston  28.  of  I  12m.  1677,"  headline  on  second  page,  head- 
piece a  line  of  border  pieces;  1-3 1,  "  A  Word  |  to  the  |  Pres- 
ent and  succeeding  Generation  |  in  |  New-England.  |  —  |  1  Kings 
8.  57.  [and  two  lines  from  the  Bible],"  headpiece  a  line  of  bor- 
der pieces,  running  headlines ;  followed  on  page  3 1  below  the 
middle  of  the  page  by  a  rule,  and, 

Ty  Eader,  The  Author  had  intended  another  Sermon  by  way 
of  Direction  to  those  of  the  Rising  Generation,  to  shew 
them  what  course  they  must  take,  that  the  Lords  gracious  presence 
may  be  so  successively  continued.  But  here  God  took  him  thus 
serving  his  Generation  who  are  by  reason  of  the  Authors  death 
deprived  of  the  benefit  of  those  meditations. 
Followed  by  "  Finis  "  at  foot  of  the  page ;  1  p.  blank. 

Copies  :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public  Library, 
Harvard  College  Library,  and  Lenox  Library. 

The  introduction  to  the  first  edition  (Cambridge, 
1671),  by  Increase  Mather,  with  the  heading  "To 
the  Church  and  Inhabitants  of  Northampton  in  New- 
England,"  is  omitted  in  the  "  Serious  Exhortation  "  here 
described,  and  in  its  place  appears  the  preface,  "  To  the 
Reader/' 

Several  |  Poems  |  Compiled  with  great  variety  of  Wit  and  | 
Learning,  full  of  Delight ;    |  Wherein  especially   is  con- 
tained a  compleat  |  Discourse,  and  Description  of  | 
/'Elements, 
I  Constitutions, 
The  Four  <  Ages  of  Man,    |  Together  with  an  exact 
/Seasons  of  the 
I  Year. 


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'Assyrian, 

Epitome  of  |  the  three  first  Monarchyes  |  Viz.  The  J  Persian, 

Grecian. 

|  And  beginning  of  the  Romane  Common-wealth  |  to  the 
end   of   their  last    King:  |  With    diverse    other  pleasant 
&  serious  Poems,  |  —  |  By  a  Gentlewoman  [Mrs.  Anne 
Bradstreet]   in   New-England.  |  —  |  The   second  Edition, 
Corrected  by  the  Author'  |  and   enlarged  by   an  Addi- 
tion of  several  other  |  Poems  found  amongst  her  Papers  | 
after  her  Death.  |  —  ||  Boston,  Printed  by  John  Foster, 
1678.    8vo.    pp.  (1),  (12),  255.    Signatures,  A  to  Q  in 
eights.    Size,  3I  by  5I  inches. 
Titlepage  surrounded  by  a  line  of  fine  border  pieces,  verso 
blank ;  2  pp.  "  Kind  Reader,"  headline  a  line  of  border  pieces, 
a  rule  and  a  similar  line  of  pieces  inverted,  headline  on  second 
page,  catchword  "  Mercu-  "  below  a  rule ;  1  p.  eighteen  lines  of 
verse  beginning  "  Mercury  shew'd  Apollo,  Bartas  Book,"  signed 
"  N.  Ward,"  catchword  "  To "  below  a  rule,  headpiece  same  as 
the  last  one  ;  3  pp.  "  To  my  dear  Sister,  the  Author  of  |  these 
Poems,"  headpiece  like  the  preceding,  signed  "  I.  W."  (John 
Woodbridge),  catchword  "  Upon  "  below  a  rule ;  1  p.  "  Vpon  the 
Author;  by  |  a  known  Friend,"  in  verse,  signed  by  "  B.  W." 
(Benjamin  Woodbridge),  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  and  a 
rule,  followed  by  a  rule  and  four  lines  of  verse  signed  "  C.  B."  ; 
1  p.  "  In  praise  of  the  Author,  Mistris  Anne  Bradstreet,  |  Virtues 
true  and  lively  Pattern,  Wife  of  the  |  Worshipfull  Simon  Bradstreet 
Esq  ;  I  At  present  residing  in  the  Occidental  parts  of  the  |  World 
in  America,  Alias  |  Nov-Anglia.,"  signed   "  N.  H.,"  catchword 
"  Upon  "  below  a  rule  ;  1  p.  "  Upon  the  Author,"  nine  lines  signed 
"  C.  B."  "  Another  to  Mrs.  Bradstreet,  |  Author  of  this  Poem," 
signed  "  H.  S.,"  cc  An  Anagram,"  three  lines,  "  Another  "  in  one 
line  ;  3  pp.  "  Vpon  Mrs.  Anne  Bradstreet  |  Her  Poems,  &c," 
signed  "  J.  Rogers,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces  and  a  rule, 
catchword  "To"  below  a  rule  on  last  page;  1,  2,  "To  her  most 


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Honoured  Fa-  |  ther  Thomas  Dudley  Esq ;  |  these  humbly  pre- 
sented," headpiece  like  the  first  one,  signed  "  Anne  Bradstreet" 
and  dated  "  March  20.  1642,"  headline  on  the  second  page  "The 
Epistle  Dedicatory";  3,  4,  "The  |  Prologue";  5-22,  "The  | 
Four  Elements,"  headlines,  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces ; 
22-43,  "  Of tne  f°ur  Humours  in  Mans  |  Constitution,"  separated 
from  the  preceding  by  a  rule,  running  headlines  ;  43-58,  "  Of  the 
four  Ages  |  of  Man,"  separated  from  the  preceding  by  a  rule, 
headlines;  59-68,  "The  four  Seasons  of  |  the  Year"  |  —  | 
headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  catchword  "The"  near  middle 
of  the  last  page ;  69-90,  "  The  four  Monarchyes,  |  the  Assyrian 
being  the  first,  |  beginning  under  Nimrod,  131.  Years  |  after 
the  Flood "  |  —  |  ,  headpiece  like  the  first  one,  catchword 
"The"  near  foot  of  the  last  page;  91-124,  "The  Second 
Monarchy,  |  being  the  Persian,  began  under  |  Cyrus,  Darius 
being  his  Uncle  and  |  Father-in-law  reigned  with  him  | 
about  two  years,"  headpiece  like  the  last  one,  catchword 
"The"  as  before,  running  headlines;  125-186,  "The  Third 
Monarchy,  |  being  the  Grecian,  beginning  |  under  Alexander  the 
Great  in  the  |  112.  Olympiad,"  headpiece  as  before,  running 
headlines;  186—191,  "The  Roman  Monarchy,  |  being  the  fourth 
and  last,  beginning  Anno  Mundi,  |  3213,"  separated  from  the 
preceding  by  a  headpiece  like  the  first  one,  running  headlines 
as  before;  192-202,  "A  Dialogue  between  Old  En-gland  and 
New;  concerning  their  |  present  Troubles,  Anno,  1642,"  head- 
piece like  the  first,  running  headlines,  catchword  "  An  "  near  foot 
of  the  last  page  between  two  rules  ;  203-206,  "  An  Elegie  upon 
that  Honou-  |  rable  and  renowned  Knight  Sir  Philip  Sidney,  |  who 
was  untimely  slain  at  the  Siege  |  of  Zutphen,  Anno,  1586,"  head- 
piece two  lines  of  border  pieces,  the  lower  one  inverted,  head- 
lines ;  206-209,  "In  honour  of  Du  Bartas,  1641,"  separated  from 
the  preceding  part  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  catchword  "  In  "  at 
foot  of  last  page;  210-214,  "In  Honour  of  that  High  and  Mighty 
Princess  |  Queen  Elizabeth  |  of  happy  Memory,"  headpiece  like 


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the  first,  headlines,  catchword  "  David  "  at  foot  of  the  last  page ; 
215,  216,  "Davids  Lamentation  for  |  Saul  and  Jonathan.  |  2.  Sam. 
1.  19,"  headpiece  like  the  first;  "To  the  Memory  of  my  dear  and 
ever  honoured  Father  |  Thomas  Dudley  Esq;  |  Who  deceased, 
July  31.  1653.  and  of  his  Age,  77,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border 
pieces,  catchword  "  An "  at  foot  of  the  last  page,  headlines ; 
220,  "  An  Epitaph  |  On  my  dear  and  ever  honoured  Mother 

I  Mrs.  Dorothy  Dudley,  |  Who  deceased  Decemb.  27.  1643. 
and  of  her  age,  61,"  headpiece  like  the  first,  catchword  "Con- 
templations" at  foot  of  the  page;  221-233,  "  Contemplations," 
headpiece  two  lines  of  border  pieces,  the  lower  one  inverted, 
headlines  on  the  last  four  pages;  233-235,  "The  Vanity  of  all 
worldly  things,"  separated  from  the  preceding  by  a  headline 
like  the  last  one  ;  "  Finis "  below  middle  of  the  page  between 
two  rules,  headlines;  236,  "The  Author  to  her  Book,"  head- 
piece like  the  last  one ;  237-244,  "  Several  other  Poems  made 
by  the  Author  upon  |  Diverse  Occasions,  were  found  among 
her  Papers  |  after  her  Death,  which  she  never  meant  should 

I  come  to  publick  view ;  amongst  which,  these  |  following  (at 
the  desire  of  some  friends  |  that  knew  her  well)  are  here 
inserted,"  headlines,  headpiece  like  the  first  in  the  book,  the 
third,  fifth,  and  sixth  poems  signed  "  A.  B." ;  245-248,  "  In 
reference  to  her  Children,  23.  June,  1656,"  headpiece  a  line  of 
border  pieces,  signed  "  A.  B."  and  on  p.  248,  "  In  Memory 
of  my  dear  grand-child  Elizabeth  |  Bradstreet,  who  deceased 
August,  1665.  I  being  a  year  and  half  old";  249,  "  In  memory 
of  my  dear  grand-child  |  Anne  Bradstreet.  |  Who  deceased  June 
20,  1669.  being  three  years  and  |  seven  Moneths  old,"  headpiece 
like  the  first  one  in  the  book;  250,  "On  my  dear  Grand-child 
Simon  Bradstreet,  |  Who  dyed  on  16.  Novemb.  1669.  being  but  | 
a  moneth,  and  one  day  old,"  signed  "  A.  B.,"  headline  "  Funeral 
Elegies";  250-251,  "To  the  memory  of  my  dear  Daughter  in 
Law,  I  Mrs.  Mercy  Bradstreet,  who  deceased  Sept.  6.  |  1669. 
in  the  28.  year  of  her  Age,"  signed  "A.  B.,"  headline  "Funeral 


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Elegies,"  catchwords,  "  A  Tune-' ;  252-255,  A  Funeral  Elogy, 
I  Vpon  that  Pattern  and  Patron  of  Virtue,  the  |  truely  pious, 
peerless  &  matchless  Gentlewoman  |  Mrs.  Anne  Bradstreet,  |  right 
Panaretes,  |  Mirror  of  Her  Age,  Glory  of  her  Sex,  Whose  | 
Heaven-born-Soul  leaving  its  earthly  Shrine,  |  chose  its  native 
home,  and  was  taken  to  its  |  Rest,  upon  16th.  Sept.  1672,"  signed 
"  Finis  &  non.  John  Norton,"  followed  by  a  line  of  Latin, 
headline  on  p.  253,  running  headlines  on  pp.  254,  255  ;  1  p. 
blank. 

Copies :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public  Library, 
John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Library  of  Congress,  and  Massa- 
chusetts Historical  Society. 

Near  the  top  of  the  page  containing  the  verses  signed 
by  N.  Ward  is  written  in  Sewall's  hand  "  Sam  Sewall 
Octr  29.  1690."  On  the  inside  of  the  covers  of  the  An- 
tiquarian Society's  copy,  the  binder  used  some  sheets  of 
Eliot's  Indian  Bible. 

1679. 

[1679.  An  Almanack  of  Ccelestial  Motions  for  the  Year  of  the 
Christian  iEra,  1679.  By  John  Foster.  Boston,  printed  by 
J.  Foster,  1679.]  I6mo.  pp.  (3-30).  No  signature  letters. 
Size,  3I  by  5I  inches. 

Titlepage  wanting ;  1  p.  "  Directions  |  For  the  use  of  the 
following  Almanack,"  followed  by  a  paragraph  giving  the  time 
when  "  The  Sun  enters "  four  signs  of  the  Zodiac,  on  March 
9,  June  10,  September  12,  and  December  11,  headpiece  a  line 
of  border  pieces,  the  first  paragraph  of  which  and  a  part  of  the 
second  are  here  given  in  order  to  show  that  they  were  prepared 
by  the  author  of  the  almanac  for  1678  mentioned  on  page  83. 


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T  TNder  the  Aspects  of  the  Sun  and  Moon  you  have  for  every  moneth 
six  Columns,  containing  I.  The  day  of  the  Moneth.  2.  The 
Day  of  the  Week.  3.  Courts,  Planets,  Aspects,  &c.  where  note,  that 
it  is  a  Lunar  Aspect  where  one  Planet  only  is  affixed  with  it.  4.  The 
Suns  place.    5.  &  6.    The  Suns  rising  and  setting. 

;  24  pages,  March  to  February;  beginning  on  the  verso  of 
the  preceding  leaf,  with  two  pages  devoted  to  each  month,  the 
one  at  the  left  showing  the  moon's  changes,  the  aspects  of  the 
planets,  the  sitting  of  the  Courts,  and  three  columns  at  the  right, 
"  Suns  place,"  the  "  Sun  riseth,"  and  the  "  Sun  setteth,"  and  on 
the  right-hand  page,  at  the  top,  six  lines  of  poetry  followed  by 
a  column  at  the  left  of  days  of  the  month  and  one  of  the 
"  Full  Sea  Boston,"  and  a  space  at  the  right  similar  to  that  of 
1678,  with  the  month  and  the  year  given  at  the  top,  and  the 
addition  of  entries  of  events  mostly  in  the  late  war  with  the 
Indians,  from  June  24,  1675,  t0  November  27,  1677 ;  1  p. 
"  Of  the  Eclipses  this  Year,"  headpiece  like  the  first  one,  fol- 
lowed by  "  Spring  Tides.  |  At  the  request  of  some  who  have 
desired  it,  the  time  |  of  the  Spring-Tides  for  the  Year  follow- 
ing is  here  a-  |  again  inserted,"  between  two  rules,  from  March 
to  June ;  1  p.  continuation  of  the  "  Spring-Tides,"  July  to 
February,  headline,  followed  by  "  To  Describe  hour-lines  on  an 
Horizontal  Plain  |  Lat.  42  gr.  30  min."  and  a  table  surrounded 
and  divided  by  rules,  followed  by  five  lines  of  print;  1  p.  "A 
Chronology  of  very  |  memorable  things"  from  "The  Creation 
of  the  World"  to  "Bissextile  or  leap  Year,"  catchword  at  foot 
of  the  page,  "  Postscript ";  1  leaf  wanting. 
Copy :  Boston  Public  Library. 

A  Brief  |  Answer  |  To  a  Small  Book  written  by  |  John  Nor- 
cot  I  against  |  Infant-Baptisme  |  —  |  This  Answer  is  written 
by  John  |  Eliot  for  the  sake  of  some  of  the  |  Flock  of 
Jesus  Christ  who  |  are  ready  to  be  staggered  |  in  point  of 
Infant-Baptisme  |  by  reading  his  Book.  |  —  |  —  ||  Boston 


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printed  by  John  Foster.  1679.  8vo.  pp.  (1),  27.  Signatures, 
A,  B  in  eights,  first  leaf  of  A  wanting.  Size,  3^  by  5!  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso 
blank;  1-16,  "A  brief  Answer  to  a  small  Book  written  |  by 
Iohn  Norcot,  against  Infant  Baptism.  |  This  Answer  is  written 
by  John  Eliot  for  |  the  sake  of  some  of  the  flock  of  Jesus  | 
Christ,  who  were  ready  to  be  stag-  |  gered  in  the  point  of  In- 
fant Bap-  I  tism,  by  reading  that  Book,"  headpiece  a  line  of 
border  pieces;  17-27,  text,  chapters  i-xi,  a  review  of  Norcott's 
book,  chapter  by  chapter. 

Copy :  Lenox  Library. 

A  Call  from  Heaven  |  To  the  Present  and  Succeeding  |  Gener- 
ations I  Or  A  I  Discourse  |  Wherein  is  shewed,  |  I.  That 
the  Children  of  Godly  Parents  are  under  |  special  Advan- 
tages and  Encouragements  to  |  seek  the  Lord.  |    II.  The 
Exceeding  danger  of  Apostasie,  especially  as  |  to  those  that 
are  the  Children  and  Posterity  of  |  such  as  have  been  emi- 
nent for  God  in   their  Ge-  |  neration.     [Delivered  in  a 
Sermon,  preached  in  the  Audi-  |  ence  of  the  general  As- 
sembly of  the  Massachu-  |  sets  Colony,  at  Boston  in  New- 
England,  I  May  23.   1677.  being  the  day  of  Election  | 
There].   III.  That  Young  Men  ought  to  Remember  God  | 
their  Creator :  |  —  |  By  Increase  Mather.  |  —  |  [  Two  lines 
from  Psalms  xlv.  17;   five  lines  from  lxxi,  17,  18.]  |  —  | 
[Two  lines  of  Latin.]  |  —  ||  Boston,  Printed  by  John  Foster, 
1679.    &vo.    pp.  (1),  (6),  114,  29.    Signatures,  A  to  H  in 
eights,  I  in  two,  A,  B,  in  eights.    Size,  3!  by  5!  inches. 
Titlepage,  verso  blank ;  6  pp.  cc  To  the  Reader,"  signed  by 
"Increase  Mather,"  and  dated  "Boston.  |  3.  m.  16.  d.  J  1679," 
headpiece  two  lines  of  fine  border  pieces,  the  lower  one  inverted, 
with  a  rule  between,  headlines,  errata  of  thirteen  lines  at  foot 
of  the  sixth  page  between  two  lines  of  border  pieces,  the  lower 
one  inverted;  1-32,  "A  Call  |  to  the  |  Rising  Generation.  |  —  | 

7 


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i  Chron.  28.  9  [and  one  line  from  the  Bible],"  headpiece  two 
lines  of  border  pieces,  the  lower  one  inverted,  with  a  rule  be- 
tween, marginal  notes;  followed  by  "A  Discourse  Concerning 
the  Danger  of  Apostasy,"  pp.  33-94,  "  Remember  now  thy 
Creator,"  pp.  95-114,  and  "Pray  for  the  Rising  Generation," 
pp.  1-29,  with  continuous  signatures  to  page  114,  and  new 
ones  in  the  last  title. 

Copies:  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public 
Library,  Congregational  Library,  and  Lenox  Library. 

The  last  title,  "  Pray  for  the  Rising  Generation/ '  also 
appeared  in  a  separate  form ;  and  the  other  two  parts  are 
described  below. 

A    Discourse  |  Concerning   the   Danger  of  |  Apostasy,  |  Espe- 
cially as  to  those  that  are  the  Children  |  and  Posterity  of 
such  as  have  been  |  eminent  for  God  in  their  |  Generation. 
I  Delivered  in  a  Sermon,   preached  in  the  Audi-  |  ence 
of  the  general  Assembly  of  the  Massachu-  |  sets  Colony, 
at  Boston  in  New-England,  |  May  23.    1677.  being  the 
day  of  Election  |  there  |  —  |  By  Increase  Mather,  |  Teacher 
of  a  Church  in  Boston  in  New-England.  |  —  |  [Two  lines 
from  Jer.  xxiii.  28 ;  four  lines  from   1  Tim.  v.  21  ;  two 
lines  from  Titus  ii.   15.]  |  —  ||   Boston,    Printed  in  the 
Year,  1679.    ^vo.    PP*  (*)>  35~94-    Signatures,  D  to  F  and 
seven  leaves  of  G.    Size,  3I  by  5!  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded    by  a   line  of  border  pieces,  verso 
blank;  35,  36,  "To  the  Reader,"  signed  by  "Increase  Mather," 
and  dated  at  "Boston,  22.   day   of  the  2.  |  Moneth.  1678."; 
37-94,  text,  "  1  Chron.  28.  9.  [and  one  line  of  Bible  text]," 
headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of  simi- 
lar pieces  inverted,  running  headlines  like  the  first  part,  "A 
Call  from   Heaven";  "Tibi  Domine "  near  foot  of  the  last 
page  between  two  rules,  catchword  below,  "  Eccles-,"  marginal 


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notes ;  followed  by  "  Remember  now  thy  Creator,"  with  con- 
tinuous signature  letters. 

Copies  :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public  Library, 
Congregational  Library,  Lenox  Library,  and  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society. 

This  forms  the  second  part  of  "  A  Call  from 
Heaven."  On  the  titlepage  of  the  copy  in  the  Library 
of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  just  below  the 
imprint  is  written  "  By  John  Foster  "  in  the  handwriting 
of  Thomas  Prince. 

Eccles.  XII.  I  |  Remember  now  thy  Creator  in  the  dayes  of  thy 
Youth.    8vo.    pp.  95-114.    Signatures,  one  leaf  of  G,  H 
in  eight,  and  one  leaf  of  I.    Size,  3I  by  5!  inches. 
Heading,  followed  by  text,  pp.  95-114,  headpiece  two  lines 
of  border  pieces  the  lower  one  inverted,  running  headlines  like 
the  first  part,  "A  Call  from  Heaven,  marginal  notes";  "Tibi 
Domine"  at  the  foot  of  the  last  page  between  two  rules. 

Copies  :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public  Library, 
Congregational  Library,  and  Lenox  Library. 

This  forms  the  third  part  of  "A  Call  from  Heaven." 
It  is  followed  by  "  Pray  for  the  Rising  Generation. " 

The  first  Pinciples  \jic\  of  the  Doctrine  of  [  Christ ;  |  Together 
with  stronger  Meat  for  them  that  |  are  skil'd  in  the  Word 
of  Righteousness.  |  Or  |  The  Doctrine  of  living  unto  God, 
wherein  the  |  Body  of  Divinity  |  Is  Briefly  and  methodi- 
cally handled  by  way  of  |  Question  and  Answer.  |  Published 
at  the  desire,  and  for  the  use  of  |  the  Church  of  Christ  in 
Norwich  in  |  New-England.  |  —  |  By  James  Fitch  Pastor  | 
of  that  Church.  |  —  |  [Two  lines  from  Psalms  xxxiv.  1 1  ; 
and  three  lines  from  2  Tim.  i.    13.]  |  —  |  —  [[  Boston, 


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Printed  by  John  Foster.  1679.  ^vo.  PP-  (l)>  (6)>  7°"> 
(1).  Signatures,  A  to  F  in  eights.  Size,  3I  by  5!  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso 
blank;  6  pp.  <c  To  the  Reader,"  signed  by  "Increase  Mather," 
and  dated  "  Boston.  4.  m.  23.  d.  |  1679,"  followed  by  a  rule, 
catchwords  "  Q.  What "  on  last  page,  headpiece  two  lines 
of  border  pieces,  the  lower  one  inverted,  headlines,  marginal 
notes;  1-76,  text,  "  Q.  What  is  Religion?"  headpiece  a  line 
of  border  pieces ;  "  Finis,"  near  the  foot  of  the  page,  between 
two  rules  ;  1  p.,  a  statement  of  promise  as  to  belief,  in  seven- 
teen lines,  between  two  lines  of  border  pieces,  the  lower  one 
inverted  ;  1  p.  verso  blank  ;  1  p.  recto  blank  ;  1  p.  verso,  "  Errata," 
nineteen  lines,  between  two  lines  of  border  pieces,  the  lower 
one  inverted. 

Copies :  Harvard  College  Library,  Lenox  Library,  and 
Watkinson  Library. 

Near  the  top  of  the  titlepage  of  the  College  Library 
copy  appears :  "  Jabez  Fitch's  Book/'  This  book,  which 
contains  manuscript  entries,  is  in  the  original  binding, 
and  interleaved.  It  was  given  to  the  Library  by  the 
Reverend  John  Andrews  (H.  C.  1786),  of  Newburyport, 
on  November  10,  1835. 

"A  Guide  to  Heaven  by  ye  Word.    Boston  [i6]79  " 

This  title  is  mentioned  in  Prince's  manuscript  cata- 
logue. It  is  probably  an  early  edition  of  "  A  Guide  to 
Heaven  from  the  Word"  (Boston,  1689),  the  authorship 
of  which  is  attributed  to  Samuel  Hardy. 

The  Necessity  |  of  |  Reformation  |  With  the  Expedients  sub- 
servient I  thereunto,  asserted ;  |  in  Answer  to  two  |  Qves- 
tions  I  I.  What  are  the  Evils  that  have  provoked  the  Lord 


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to  bring  his  Judg-  |  ments  on  New-England?  |  II.  What 
is  to  be  done  that  so  those  Evils  may  be  Reformed?  | 
Agreed  upon   by  the  |  Elders   and    Messengers  |  Of  the 
Churches  assembled  in  the  |  Synod  |  At  Boston  in  New- 
England,  |  Sept.   10.   1679.  I  —  I  [Three  lines  from  Mai. 
iii.  7  ;  four  lines  from  Rev.  ii.  4,  5.]  |  —  |  —  ||  Boston ;  | 
Printed  by  John  Foster.    In  the  Year,  1679.   4to-    PP-  (2)> 
(4),  15.    Signatures,  A  to  C  in  fours.    Size,  5!  by  7!  inches. 
First  page  blank;  1  p.    "At  the  General  Covrt  held  at 
Boston  in  New-England,  |  the  15th.  of  October  1679,"  followed 
by  the  order  of  the  General  Court,  in  twelve  lines,  given  in  full 
below,  and  signed  "  By  the  Court,  Edward  Rawson  Seer."  the 
whole  between  two  lines  of  border  pieces  and  two  rules,  the  lower 
line  of  border  pieces  inverted  ;  titlepage,  given  above,  verso  blank  ; 
4  PP-  "  T°  tne  Much  Honoured  |  General  Court  |  Of  the  Mas- 
sachusets  Colony,  now  sitting  at  Boston  |  in  New-England.  | 
Right  Worshipful,  Worshipful,  and  much  Honoured  in  our  Lord 
Jesus  ! "  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of 
similar  pieces  inverted,  and  headlines  "  The  Epistle  Dedicatory," 
catchword  in  middle  of  last  page  "  Quest."  below  a  rule ;  1-9, 
"Quest.  I.  I  What  are  the  Evils  that  have  provoked  the  Lord  | 
to  bring  his  Judgements  on  New  England  ?,"  large  ornamental 
headpiece;  rule  at  middle  of  page  9;  9-15,  "Quest.  II.  |  What 
is  to  be  done  that  so  these  Evils  may  be  Re-  |  formed "  sepa- 
rated from  the  first  question  by  two  lines  of  border  pieces  the 
lower  one  inverted  with  a  rule  between ;  "  Finis "  below  the 
middle  of  page ;  last  page  blank. 

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Boston  Public  Library,  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Lenox 
Library,  and  New  York  Historical  Society. 

At  the  session  beginning  on  May  28,  1679  (General 
Court  Records,  V.  215,  216)  an  order  was  passed  conven- 
ing a  synod  as  follows  :  — 


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JOHN  FOSTER 


In  ansr  to  a  motion  made  by  some  of  reuerend  elders,  that 
there  might  be  a  convening  of  the  elders  &  messengers  of  the 
churches  in  forme  of  a  synod,  for  the  reuisall  of  the  platforme  of 
discipljne  agreed  vpon  by  the  churches,  1647,  an^  what  else  may 
appeare  necessary  for  the  preventing  schishmes,  haeresies,  pro- 
phaness,  &  the  establishment  of  the  churches  in  one  faith  &  order 
of  the  gospell,  this  Court  doe  approoue  of  the  sajd  motion,  & 
order  their  assembling  for  the  ends  aforesajd  on  the  second  Wed- 
nesday in  September  next,  at  Boston  ;  and  the  secretary  is  required 
seasonably  to  give  notice  hereof  to  the  seuerall  churches. 

It  is  further  ordered,  that  the  charges  of  this  meeting  shall  be 
borne  by  the  churches  respectively. 

Quaesti  1.  What  are  the  euills  that  haue  provoked  the  Lord 
to  bring  his  judgments  on  New  England  ? 

2  Quaest.  What  is  to  be  donn  that  so  these  evills  may  be 
reformed  ? 

The  Synod  was  held  on  September  10,  and  on  October 
15,  the  Court  (Records  V.  244)  passed  the  order,  printed 
on  the  first  leaf  of  "  The  Necessity  of  Reformation,' '  as 
follows :  — 

This  Court  having  perused  the  result  of  the  late  |  Synod  of 
Sept.  10.  1679.  d°e  Judge  lt  meet  to  |  commend  the  same  to  the 
serious  Consideration  |  of  all  the  Churches  and  People  in  this  Ju- 
risdicti-  |  on  ;  hereby  injoying  and  requiring  all  Persons  in  their 
respective  capacities,  to  a  carefull  and  diligent  Reformation  of 
I  all  those  provoking  evils  mentioned  therein,  according  to  the 
I  true  intent  thereof,  that  so  the  anger  and  displeasure  of  God  | 
which  hath  been  many  wayes  manifested,  may  be  averted  |  from 
this  poor  People,  and  his  favour  and  blessing  obtained  |  as  in 
former  times ;  and  for  this  end  hath  ordered  the  same  to  |  be 
Printed. 


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An  extract  from  the  preface  of  this  little  book,  and 
pages  1- 1 5  were  reprinted  by  Cotton  Mather  in  his  Mag- 
nalia  (Book  V.  pages  88-94),  London,  1702;  and  again 
in  "The  Results  of  Three  Synods"  (pp.  94-118),  Boston, 
1725,  where  the  order  is  printed  on  the  last  page.  Of 
this  work  Prince  in  his  Manuscript  catalogue  writes,  "  Sd 
to  be  drawn  up  by  Mr  Increase  Mather/'  On  the  blank 
page  at  the  beginning  of  a  copy  in  the  Boston  Public 
Library  is  the  autograph  signature  of  "John  Hull." 
Another  copy  in  the  Boston  Public  Library  does  not 
have  the  two  rules  in  connection  with  the  Court  Order, 
nor  the  rule  above  the  catchword  "  Quest."  at  the  end 
of  the  Epistle  Dedicatory;  and  on  page  9  between  the 
questions  only  a  rule  appears. 

The  I  Necessity  |  of  |  The  pouring  out  of  the  Spirit  |  from  on 
High  I  upon  a  |  Sinning  Apostatizing  People,  set  under  | 
Judgment,  in  order  to  their  merciful  |  Deliverance  and  Salva- 
tion. I  As  it  was  Delivered  in  part,  upon  21.  9.  1678.  being 
a  general  |  Fast  throughout  the  united  Colonies  of  N.  E. 

I  —  I  By  William  Adams,  |  Pastor  of  the  Church  of  Christ 
in  Dedham.  |  —  |  [Four  lines  from  Luke  xix.  41,  42  ;  three 
lines  from  Luke  xiii.  35;  three  lines  from  Psalms  xiv.  7.] 

I  —  I  — 1|  Boston;  |  Printed  by  John  Foster,  for  William 
Avery,  near  the  sign  of  the  |  blew  Anchor.  1679.  4to. 
pp.  (1),  (6),  48.  Signatures,  A  to  G  in  fours.  Size,  5!  by 
7I  inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  two  border  lines,  verso  blank ;  5  pp. 
uTo  the  Reader,"  signed  by  "Samuel  Torrey "  and  "  Josiah 
Flint,''  headpiece  line  of  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of  similar 
inverted  pieces,  headlines ;  1  p.  fourteen  lines  of  errata  between 


104 


JOHN  FOSTER 


two  lines  of  border  pieces  beginning  "  Reader,  The  old  Plea,  The 
Authors  absence  from  the  Press,  being  |  stil  in  force,  occasions  the 
further  desire  of  this,  viz.  that  before  |  thou  readest  thou  wilt  with 
thy  pen  mend  these  following  faults";  1-48,  text,"  "  Isai.  32. 
13-18  [and  thirteen  lines  from  the  Bible],"  similar  headpiece  to 
that  of  the  preface ;  "  Finis  "  at  foot  of  the  page. 

Copies  :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public  Library, 
Harvard  College  Library,  and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

On  the  titlepage  of  the  Historical  Society's  copy  is 
written  "Jo.  Bailys  Booke  Dec.  22.  84,  N.  E." 

New-Englands  |  choicest  Blessing  |  And  the  Mercy  most  to  be 
desired  by  |  all  that  wish  well  to  this  People.  |  Cleared  in 
a  I  Sermon  |  Preached  before  the  |  Covrt  of  Election  |  At 
Boston  on  May  28.  |  1679.  I  —  I  By  James  Allen,  |  Teacher 
•  to  the  first  gathered  Church  therein.  |  —  |  [Centre  piece, 
four  lines  of  fine  border  pieces  the  whole  tapering  down- 
ward.] I  — ||  Boston,  I  Printed  by  John  Foster,  1679.  4to- 
pp.  (1),  (2),  14.     Signatures,  A,  B  in  fours,  C  in  two. 
Size,  6  by  8|  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso  blank ; 
2  pp.  "  To  the  Reader,"  signed  "  James  Allen,"  headpiece  line 
of  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of  finer  pieces  inverted,  catch- 
words on  the  second  page,  "  1  King."  below  a  rule ;   1-14,  text, 
"  1  King.  8.  57.  [and  two  lines  from  the  Bible],"  headpiece  like 
that  of  preface,  only  lower  pieces  as  large  as  the  upper ;  "  Soli 
Deo  Gloria"  at  the  end  of  page  14,  below  which  are  two  lines 
of  "  Errata  "  ;  one  leaf  blank. 

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Library,  Harvard  College  Library,  John  Carter  Brown  Library, 
and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

On  the  back  of  the  titlepage  of  the  Historical  Society's 
copy  is  the  entry,  "  Beniamin  Dyer  |  his  Book  |  1700/  I." 


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105 


Pray  for  the  Rising  |  Generation.  |  —  |  Or  a  |  Sermon  |  Wherein 
Godly  Parents  are  encouraged  |  to  Pray  and  Believe  for  their 
I  Children.  |  Preached  the  third  day  of  the  fifth  Moneth, 
1678,  I  which  day  was  set  apart  by  the  second  Church  |  in 
Boston  in  New-England,  humbly  to  seek  unto  |  God  by 
Fasting  and  Prayer,  for  the  Spirit  [sic]  of  Con-  |  verting  Grace 
to  be  poured  out  upon  the  Chil-  |  dren,  and  Rising  Gener- 
ation in  New-England.  |  —  |  The  second  impression.  |  —  | 
By  Increase  Mather,  Teacher  |  of  that  Church.  |  —  |  [Two 
lines  from  Deut.  xxx.  6  ;  two  lines  from  2  Sam.  vii. 
27;  two  lines  from  Isaiah  xxxii.  15.]  |  —  |  [Two  lines  of 
Latin.]  |  —  ||  Boston,  Printed  by  John  Foster,  1679.  ^vo. 
pp.  29.  Signatures,  A,  B  in  eights.  Size,  3I  by  5! 
inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso  blank ; 
(3,4),  "To  the  Reader,"  signed  "Increase  Mather,"  and  dated 
at  "  Boston,  August  22.  |  1678,"  headpiece  two  lines  of  fine 
border  pieces,  lower  one  inverted  ;  5-29,  "  Pray  for  the  Rising  | 
Generation.  |  —  |  Isaiah  44.  3.  [and  two  lines  from  the  Bible]," 
headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of  similar 
border  pieces  inverted,  running  headlines,  marginal  notes ;  "  Tibi 
Domine  "  below  the  middle  of  the  page  between  two  rules,  below 
which  are  six  lines  of  an  erratum^  to  the  first  part  of  "A  Call 
from  Heaven,"  the  third  part  of  which  this  follows ;  last  leaf 
blank. 

Copies  :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public 
Library,  Congregational  Library,  and  Lenox  Library. 

In  the  preface  Mather  says,  "  Some  years  ago,  I  men- 
tioned another  *  Discourse  relating  to  the  Rising  Gen- 
eration in  New-England,  then  in  my  thoughts."  In 
the  marginal  note  to  the  asterisk  it  says,  "  now  published 
together  with  this  second  Impression. " 


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Serious  Advice  to  delivered  Ones  from  |  Sickness,  or  any  other 
Dangers  threat-  |  ning  Death,  how  they  ought  to  carry  it, 
that  |  their  Mercyes  may  be  continued,  and  |  After  Misery 
prevented.  |  Or  the  healed  ones  |  Prophvlacticon  |  Or  Health- 
full  Diet.  |  Delivered  in  several  |  Sermons  |  On  John  5.  14. 
I  —  I  By  James  Allin,  |  Teacher  to  the  most  antient  Church 
of  Christ  in  Boston.  |  —  |  [Centre  piece,  four  lines  of  fine 
border  pieces  the  whole  tapering  downward.]  |  —  ||  Boston,  | 
Printed  by  John  Foster,  in  the  Year  |  1679.  4to-   PP*  (*)> 
(1),  30  [31].    Signatures,  A  to  D  in  fours,  E  in  two.  Size, 
Si  by  7i  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso  blank ; 
1  p.  "To  the  Reader,"  signed  "James  Ailing  and  dated  at 
"Boston,  May  16.  |  1679,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  a 
rule,  and  a  line  of  finer  pieces  inverted;  1  p.  blank;  1-30  [31], 
text,  "John  5.  14.  [and  two  lines  from  the  Bible],"  headpiece, 
like  that  of  the  preface,  only  the  lower  pieces  of  same  size  as  the 
upper,  pages  29  to  31  wrongly  numbered  27,  29,  30;  "Finis" 
near  foot  of  page,  between  two  rules,  followed  by  one  line  of 
errata ;  1  p.  blank. 

Copies :  Harvard  College  Library  and  Massachusetts  His- 
torical Society. 

In  the  preface  "To  the  Reader,"  Allin  says:  — 

These  Sermons  written  out  by  some  pious  Hearers  from  their 
own  Notes,  and  by  their  desire  hastned  to  the  Press,  for  I  could 
not,  for  want  of  time,  supervise  them  as  I  would  ;  and  not  being 
willing  to  burden  them  with  writing  them  again,  I  have  been 
prevailed  with,  to  consent  to  their  publishing  in  this  homely 
Dress ;  unfit  indeed  for  the  vein  of  this  curious  and  carping 
Age,  that  are  more  for  what  pleaseth  than  what  profiteth  them. 

On  the  titlepage  of  the  Historical  Society's  copy  is 
written  "Jo.  Bailys's  |  Booke,  6d  |  84." 


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Serious  Advice  .  .  .  [same  as  before]  ||  Boston,  |  Printed  by 
John  Foster,  and  sold  by  Edmund  Ranger.  |  1679.  Same 
size,  paging,  and  signatures.    Size,  5!  by  7I  inches. 
Copy:  American  Antiquarian  Society. 

A  I  Sermon  |  preached  upon  Ezek.  22.  30,  31.  |  Occasioned  by 
the  Death  of  the  |  much  honoured  |  John  Leveret  Esq ;  | 
Governour  of  the  Colony  of  the  |  Mattachusets.  N-E. 
I  —  I  By  S.  W.  [Samuel  Willard]  Teacher  of  the  South 
Church  I  in  Boston.  |  —  |  [Centre  piece,  four  lines  of  fine 
border  pieces  the  whole  tapering  downward.]  |  —  ||  Bos- 
ton;  I  Printed  by  John  Foster,  in  the  Year  1679.  4to- 
pp.  (1),  13.  Signatures,  A,  B  in  fours.  Size,  5!  by  7I 
inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso  blank; 
1-13,  "Ezek.  XXII.  XXX.  XXXI.  [and  five  lines  from  the 
Bible]/'  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  a  rule,  and  a  line  of 
similar  pieces  inverted;  "Finis''  at  foot  of  the  page;  1  p.  blank. 

Copies :  Boston  Public  Library,  Harvard  College  Library,  and 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

[Word  to  the  Aged.    By  William  Bridge.    Boston  Printed  for 
John  Griffin.    1679.    i^mo.    pp.  18.] 

Haven  gives  this  title  in  his  list  of  "  Ante-Revolu- 
tionary Publications." 

1680. 

MDCLXXX.  I  —  I  An  I  Almanack  |  of  |  Coelestial  Motions  for 
the  Year  of  the  |  Christian  iEpocha,  |  1680.  |  Being  in  our 
Account  first  after  Leap-year:  |  And  from  the  Creation,  | 
5629.  I  —  I  The  Vulgar  Notes.  | 


Golden  Numb.  9. 
Cycle  of  the  Sun.  9. 
Dominic.  Let.  C. 


'Epact  9. 
Rom.  Indict.  3. 
Num.  Direct.  21. 


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JOHN  FOSTER 


|  —  |  Calculated  for  the  Meridian  of  Boston  in  New-  | 
England,  where  the  Article  Pole  is  elevated  |  42  Degrees 
&  30  Minutes.  |  —  |  —  ||  Printed  for  John  Vsher  of  Bos- 
ton.   1680.    8vo.   pp.  (16).    Signature  in  eight.    Size,  3!  by 
61  inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso, 
"  To  the  Reader,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  followed 
on  the  same  page  by  "  Of  the  Eclipses  this  year,  1680." ; 
12  pp.  March  to  February ;  1  p.  "  The  Natures  and  Opera- 
tions of  the  seven  Planets,  |  with  the  Names  and  Characters 
given  them  by  |  Astronomers,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border 
pieces ;  1  p.  "  Spring  Tides,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces, 
followed  on  the  same  page  by  a  rule  and  the  correction  of  a 
mistake  relative  to  the  "  Guards  north "  which  was  mentioned 
on  the  second  page,  in  seven  lines. 

Copy :  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

1680. 

MDCLXXX.  I  An  |  Almanack  |  [same  as  before]  .  .  .  ||  Printed 
for,  and  sold  by  Henry  Phillips  in  the  |  west  end  of  the 
Exchange  in  Boston.    1680.    8vo.  pp.  (16).   [Collation  same 
as  the  "John  Vsher"  copy.] 
Copy :  American  Antiquarian  Society. 

A  I  Confession  |  of  |  Faith  |  Owned  and  consented  unto  by  the  | 
Elders  and  Messengers  |  of  the  Churches  |  Assembled  at 
Boston  in  New-England,  |  May  12.  1680.  |  Being  the 
second  Session  of  that  |  Synod.  |  —  |  —  |  [One  line  from 
Eph.  iv.  5;  two  lines  from  Col.  ii.  5.]  |  —  ||  Boston;  | 
Printed  by  John  Foster.  1680.  8vo.  pp.  (2),  (4),  65. 
Signatures,  A  to  D  in  eights,  and  five  leaves  of  E.  Size, 
3!  by  5I  inches. 

I  p.  blank,  verso,  "At  a  General  Court  held  at  |  held  at 
[sic']  Boston,  May   19.  |  1680,"  the  approval  of  the  General 


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3       AN  s 

i  ALMANACK  g 

«SS                    OF  ^ 

Coeleftial  Motions  for  the  Year  of  the  ^ 

Chriftian  zsEpocha, 

<58?                        I  6  8  c  fi* 

ev£  Bem£  in  our  Accounrfirft  after  leaf-year :  1ST 
25  And  from  the  Creation, 

*      —  s 

$jgj  The  Vulgar  Note?. 

4)5  Golden  Numb.  $.  )  C  Epaft  9. 
4JS     Cycle  of  the  Sun.  9.  W  Rom.  Indic\  3. 

Dbminic.Let.     C.  \  (  Num.  Direfl.  21.  ig^ 

«i|  —  —   JgJ* 

^••v     Calculated  for  the  A  feridun  of  BoOon  in  New- 
England,  white  the  Artick  Pole  U  elevated 
42  Degrees  &  ?o  Minutes. 
«£3   _  9^ 

*ss  ^> 

 —  

^  Print-.d  for,  and  fold  by  ffwy  Phillip*  in  the  SK> 
well  end  of  the  Exchange  in  Ooiton.1680. 


no 


JOHN  FOSTER 


Court  of  the  "  Confession  of  Faith "  and  the  "  Platform  of 
Church-Discipline,"  bound  together  with  *it7  and  the  order  that 
they  "  be  Printed  for  the  benefit  of  these  Churches  in  present 
and  after  times/'  signed  by  "  Edward  Rawson  Seer',"  a  line  of 
border  pieces  and  a  rule  above,  and  a  rule  and  a  similar  line 
of  border  pieces  inverted  below ;  i  p.  title,  given  above,  sur- 
rounded by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso  blank ;  4  pp.  "  A 
Preface,"  headpiece  two  lines  of  border  pieces,  the  lower  one 
inverted,  headlines;  1-65,  "A  |  Confession  |  of  |  Faith."  |  —  |  in 
thirty-two  chapters,  headpiece  two  lines  of  border  pieces,  the 
lower  one  inverted,  with  a  rule  between,  headlines ;  "  Finis  "  at 
foot  of  page  below  a  rule ;  1  p.  blank ;  followed  by  a  "  Plat- 
form of  Church-Discipline,"  with  continuous  signature  marks. 

Copies :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public 
Library,  Congregational  Library,  Connecticut  Historical  Society, 
John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Lenox  Library,  and  William  Green 
Shillaber. 

On  the  fly-leaf  of  the  copy  in  the  Library  of  the 
Connecticut  Historical  Society  is  written  "  Noadiah  Rus- 
sell's Book  Anno  Domini  168 1."  On  the  fly-leaf  of  the 
copy  in  the  Boston  Public  Library  is  the  autograph  sig- 
nature of  "  John  Hull."  On  the  verso  of  the  titlepage 
of  another  copy,  in  the  Prince  Collection,  is  written  in 
Thomas  Prince's  hand  "T.  Prince.  1700.  i.s  6d  J  For  one 
at  Sandwich.  1700.  |  This  Preface  was  drawn  up  by  Mr 
Increase  |  Mather;  as  appears  by  the  Ist  rough  Draught  | 
thereof  wc  I  have  drawn  in  his  own  Hand-  |  writing." 

It  appears  by  the  accounts  of  James  Russell,  Treasurer 
of  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  that  he  paid  in  Octo- 
ber, 1680,  "  Ratlief  binding  Senod  bookes"  five  pounds, 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  m 

again  "  Ratlief  more  i*  a  Cord  wood  Court  IIs,''  and 
then,  December  15,  1680,  Ratlief  in  full  fi  binding 
Synod  bookes"  four  pounds  (Massachusetts  Archives, 
C.  303).  John  RatclifFe  was  an  early  bookbinder  in 
Boston.  On  May  2,  1681,  is  the  entry  "To  Jn°  Foster 
f&  printing  as  ft  Ace1/'  twenty-one  pounds,  which  was 
probably  the  cost  of  printing  the  "  Confession  of  Faith," 
and  the  "  Platform  of  Church  Discipline "  which  was 
bound  with  it  (C.  305). 

A  Copy  of  I  The  Church-Covenants  |  which  have  been  used  in 
the  I  Church  of  |  Salem  |  Both  formerly,  and  in  their  late 
Renewing  of  |  their  Covenant  on  the  day  of  the  publick 
Fast,  I  April   15.  1680.  |  As  a  Direction  pointing  to  that 
Covenant   of  |  Gods    Grace   in    Christ   made   with    his  | 
Church  and  People  in  the    holy   Scripture.  |  [Two  lines 
from  Psal.  1.  5 ;   three  lines  from  Heb.  xii.  24,  x.  29, 
xiii.  20;  and  six  from  Jer.  xxx.  21,  22,  1.  4,  5.]  |  —  |  —  || 
Boston,  I  Printed,  at  the  desire  and  for  the  use  of  many 
in   Salem,  |  for  themselves  and  their   children,  |  by  J.  F. 
1680.    8vo.  (1),  8.    Signature  in  eight,  blank  leaf  at  begin- 
ning, and  two  blank  leaves  at  the  end.    Size,  33  by  5!  inches. 
Titlepage,  verso  blank ;  1-4.    "  There  was  a  Church  Cov- 
enant agreed  upon  and  con-  |  sented  to  by  the  Church  of  Salem 
at   their  first  |  beginning  in   the   Year,    1629,  Aug.   6.  |  This 
following  Covenant  was  propounded  by  the  |  Pastor,  agreed  upon 
and   consented  to  by  the  Bre-  |  thren  of  the  Church,  in  the 
Year,  1636.  |  [Two  lines  from  Psal.  1.  5],"  headpiece  a  line  of 
border  pieces,  at  foot  of  page  4,  "  Also  this  following  Covenant 
was  in  seve-  |  ral  Church  Meetings  in  the  beginning  of  this  | 
year  1680.  considered  of,  agreed  upon,  and  consented  |  to  by 
the  generality  of  the  Church,  to  be  used  as  a  di-  |  rection  for 


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the  Renewing  of  our  Church  Covenant,  |  as  being  more  ac- 
commodated to  the  present  times,  and  |  state  of  things  amongst 
us.  |  Accordingly  it  was  made  use  of  in  that  way  at  |  the 
conclusion  of  the  publick  Fast,  Apr.  15.  1680.  |  viz.";  5-8, 
text,  u  Finis  "  at  foot  of  the  page. 

Copy :  American  Antiquarian  Society. 

The  signature  of  "Saml  Curwen,  1739,"  appears  on 
pages  1  and  8,  and  that  of  Jonathan  Curwen  on  the 
fly-leaf. 

The  I  Divine    Right  |   of  |  Infant-Baptisme  |  Asserted  and 
Proved    from  |  Scripture  |  And  |  Antiqvity.  |  —  |  By  In- 
crease Mather,  |  Teacher  of  a  Church  of  Christ  in  Boston 
in  New-England.  |  —  |  [One  line  from  Mic.  ii.  9  ;  five 
lines   from    Mark  x.    13,   14,   16.]  |  —  |  [Five  lines  of 
Latin.]  |  —  |  —  ||  Boston,  |  Printed  by  John  Foster,  in  the 
Year  1680.    4to.    pp.  (1),  (5),  27.    Signatures,  A  to  D  in 
fours,  E  in  two.    Size,  5I  by  7!  inches. 
Titlepage,  verso  blank ;   5  pp.  "  Christian  Reader,"  signed 
"Vrian  Oakes,"  and  dated  at  "Cambridge,  |  Febru.  21.  i6i;" 
large  ornamental  headpiece,  headlines ;  1  p.  blank ;  1-27,  "  The 
I  Divine  Right  |  of  |  Infant-Baptisme  |  Asserted  and  Proved," 
headpiece  line  of  border  pieces,  running  headlines,  pages  26 
and  27  in  finer  type ;  "  Finis  "  near  foot  of  the  page,  between 
two  rules  followed  by  a  list  of  errata,  three  lines ;  1  p.  blank. 

Copies :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public 
Library,  British  Museum,  Congregational  Library,  Library  of 
the  late  Sumner  Hollingsworth,  John  Carter  Brown  Library, 
and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

On  the  blank  page  at  the  end  of  the  Historical  So- 
ciety's copy  there  is  written  "  Salem,  An:  Dom :  171 8. 
J  Theoph :  Pickering  Liber." 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST 


A  COPY  OF 

The  Church-Covenants 

which  have  been  ufed  in  the 
Church  of 

SALEM 

Both  formerly,  and  in  their  fate  Renewing  of 
their  Covenant  on  the  day  of  the  puWick  FaR, 
AftU  15. 1680. 

As  a  Dirc&ion  poimfng  to  that  Covenant  of 
Gods  Grace  in  Chrifl:  made  with  his 
Church  and  People  in  the  holy  Scripture. 


Caber  m?  People  mo  me  which  have  nude  a  Covenant  with 

me  by  Sacrifice,  Pfal. 
5fcf«w(v  mdworoftbc  Hew  Covenant,  HeiM  2  S4» 
The  Wood  ef  the  Ctfv«4«,Hcb.  10.29^ 
The  Blood  off  he  overlaying  Covenant,  Hcb,  1 3  20. 
IKtoi*  this  that  engagetb  bis  heart  to  off  roach  unto  me, 

pall  be  my  Feofle,  and  !  mil  be  your  God,  Jer^o.?  t  ,22* 
T&j$*ll  gee  and  fee^thelord  thti?  G*d,  they  JhaU  as  I  the 

way  to  Zionmtb  tbefr  facts  tbitbervtird,  f&}w&%  C«w 

ht  ns  joyn  oar  (elves  &  the  Lord,  h  a  perpetual  Cfc< 

tbatfidlJ  wtbe  fagotten, 


Pnated,  at  (he  defins  and  for  the  ufe  of  many  a  Saw 
forthemfetoesand  their  Children^ 
l>y  ff.  1680, 


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The  Duty  of  a  People  that  have  Renewed  |  their  Covenant 
with  God.  |  —  |  Opened  and  Urged  in  |  A  Sermon  | 
Preached  to  the  second  Church  in  Boston  in  |  New- 
England,  March  17.  16^:  after  |  that  Church  had  ex- 
plicitly and  most  j  solemnly  renewed  the  Ingagement  |  of 
themselves  to  God,  and  |  one  to  another.  |  —  |  By  Samvel 
Willard,  Teacher  of  a  Church  in  |  Boston  in  New- 
England.  I  —  I  [Three  lines  from  Deut.  xxix.  1  ;  three 
lines  from  2  Chron.  xv.  15.]  |  —  |  [Centre  piece,  two 
lines  of  border  pieces,  eight  in  the  first,  and  six  in  the 
second.]  |  —  ||  Boston,  Printed  by  John  Foster.  1680. 
4to.  pp.  (1),  13.  Signatures,  A,  B  in  fours.  Size,  5I  by  y| 
inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  border  line,  verso  blank ; 
1-13,  "  The  Duty  of  a  People  that  have  |  Renewed  their  Cov- 
enant. I  —  [  Josh.  24.  22,  23.  .  .  .  [Four  lines  from  the  Bible]," 
headpiece  two  lines  of  border  pieces,  the  lower  one  inverted, 
running  headlines ;  "  Finis "  at  foot  of  the  page  between  two 
rules ;  1  p.  blank. 

Copies :  Boston  Public  Library,  Congregational  Library, 
Lenox  Library,  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  and  William 
Green  Shillaber. 

In  Increase  Mather's  preface  to  his  sermon,  "  Re- 
turning unto  God,"  preached  before  the  Second  Church 
in  Boston  on  the  same  day,  he  says :  — 

And  now  (my  Brethren,  and  the  Lords  people)  the 
greatest  work  is  yet  to  do,  viz.  sincere  endeavours  to  keep 
Covenant.  To  help  and  further  you  wherein,  there  is  printed 
a  faithful  word,  preached  by  that  Worthy  Person,  who  spake 
unto  you  in  the  Name  of  the  Lord,  on  the  day  wherein  you  had 
so  solemnly  Renewed  your  choice  of  the  Lord  to  be  your  God. 


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A  I  Platform  |  of  |  Church-Discipline  |  Gathered  out  of  |  the 
Word  of  God ;  |  And  Agreed  upon  by  the  |  Elders  and 
Messengers  |  of  the  Churches  Assembled  in  the  |  Synod.  | 
At  Cambridge  in  N.  E.  |  To  be  presented  to  the  Churches 
&  General  Court  |  for  their  Consideration  and  Acceptance 
in  I  the  Lord,  the  8th.  Moneth,  Anno.  1649.  I  —  I  [Two 
lines  from  Psalms  lxxxiv.  1  ;  two  from  xxvi.  8  ;  and  five 
from  xxvii.  4.]  |  —  ||  Boston  :  Printed  by  John  Foster. 
1680.  8vo.  (1),  (21),  64,  (3).  Signatures,  last  three  leaves 
of  E,  F  to  K  in  eights,  and  L  in  four.  Size,  3!  by  5! 
inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso  blank ; 
21  pp.  "The  Preface,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  with 
a  raised  query  mark  after  the  eighth  and  ninth  pieces,  and  a 
long  rule,  headlines,  catchword  at  end  below  a  rule  in  middle 
of  page,  "  Chap." ;  1  p.  blank ;  1-64,  text,  "  Chap.  I.  [to 
XVII.],"  parts  separated  by  a  rule,  headpiece  a  line  of  border 
pieces  like  the  first,  with  an  Italic  colon  after  the  seventh  piece, 
various  headlines,  marginal  Bible  references  ;  "  Finis  "  in  middle 
of  the  page  between  two  rules ;  3  pp.  "  A  Table  of  the  Con- 
tents of  the  Chap-  |  ters  in  the  Confession  of  Faith,"  headpiece 
a  line  of  border  pieces,  followed  on  the  2d  page  by  "  The  Con- 
tents of  the  Chapters  in  the  |  Platform  of  Church-Discipline," 
"  The  End  "  at  foot  of  the  third  page,  headlines ;  1  p.  blank ; 
1  leaf  blank.  Signature  letters  of  "  A  Platform  "  continued  from 
those  of  "A  Confession  of  Faith,"  Boston,  1680,  with  which 
it  was  printed. 

Copies :    American    Antiquarian    Society,    Boston     Public ' 
Library,  Congregational  Library,  Connecticut  Historical  Society, 
and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

Returning  unto  God  the  great  concernment  |  of  a  Covenant 
People.  I  —  I  Or  I  A  Sermon  |  Preached  to  the  second 
Church  in  Boston  in  |  New-England,  March  17.  16S  when 


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|  that  Church  did  solemnly  and  explicitly  |  Renew  their 
Covenant  with  |  God,  and  one  with  another.  |  —  |  By  In- 
crease Mather  Teacher  of  that  Church.  |  —  |  [Two  lines 
from  2  Sam.  vii.  24;  two  lines  from  2  Chron.  xxix.  10; 
two  lines  from  Ezra  x.  12  ;  four  lines  from  Jer.  xviii.  7,  8.] 
I  —  I  [Centre  piece,  two  lines  of  border  pieces,  eight  in  the 
first  and  six  in  the  second.]  |  — 1|  Boston,  Printed  by  John 
Foster.    1680.    4to.    pp.  (1),  (4),  19,  (2).    Signatures,  A 
to  C  in  fours,  and  two  leaves.    Size,  5!  by  7I  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  border  line,  verso  blank ;  4  pp. 
"  To  the  second  Church  of  Christ  in  |  Boston  in  New-England," 
signed  "Increase  Mather,"  and  dated  "April  19,  1680/'  head- 
piece of  line  of  border  pieces  and  one  of  similar  pieces  inverted, 
running  headlines,  catchword  on  last  page  "Return-"  between 
two  lines  of  border  pieces,  the  lower  one  inverted;  1-19,  "Re- 
turning unto  God  the  great   Con-  |  cernment  of  a  Covenant 
People.  I  Hos.  14.  1.  [Two  lines  from  the  Bible],"  large  ornamen- 
tal headpiece,  running  headlines;  "  Tibi  Domine  "  at  foot  of  page 
19  below  a  rule;  2  pp.  "The  Covenant  which  was  unanimously 
con-  I  sented  unto,  is  as  followeth  " ;  "Finis"  below  middle  of 
page  between  two  rules ;  1  p.  blank ;  sermon  has  marginal  notes. 

Copies  :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public 
Library,  British  Museum,  Congregational  Library,  Library  of 
the  late  Sumner  Hollingsworth,  John  Carter  Brown  Library, 
and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

In  the  preface  Mather  speaks  of  the  "first  constitu- 
tion "  of  the  Church:  — 

It  was  upon  the  fifth  day  of  the  fourth  Moneth,  1650.  That 
the  Foundation  of  this  Temple  was  laid.  .  .  .  That  awfull  Dis- 
pensation of  Divine  Providence  which  befel  us  above  three  years 
agoe,  when  the  house  of  God,  (for  so  doth  the  Scripture  call  those 
places  which  are  set  apart  for  his  worship,  Psal.  74,  8.  &  83. 


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12)  was  burnt  with  fire,  and  above  forty  dwellings  near  adjoyning 
all  consumed  in  one  fatal  morning,  I  need  not  acquaint  you,  for 
you  have  not  forgotten  it,  and  the  marks  and  Remembrances 
of  those  Desoltions  are  still  dayly  to  be  seen. 

In  the  preface,  also,  he  mentions  the  death  of  "  a 
Luke,  a  beloved  Physitian,  whom  many  (and  for  ought 
I  know,  all)  of  you  had  your  thoughts  upon,  for  im- 
provement as  a  Ruling  Elder  in  this  Church "  ;  and  in 
the  text  (p.  10)  he  speaks  of  the  death  of  Captain  Lake  "a 
most  desireable  and  useful  man,  that  dyed  by  the  Sword 
of  the  Heathen,"  and  the  death  of  Dr.  Samuel  Bracken- 
bury  "  &  several  other  hopefull  and  desirable  Persons" 
by  "  the  late  mortal  Contagion."  The  allusion  here  is 
to  an  epidemic  of  small-pox.  According  to  Hull's  Diary 
Dr.  Brackenbury  died  on  January  n,  1677-78. 

On  the  last  page  of  the  copy  in  the  Library  of  the 
American  Antiquarian  Society,  in  the  handwriting  of 
Thomas  Prince,  are  the  words:  "I  have  ye  Ist  rough 
Draught  of  this  Covenant  drawn  by  Mr  Increase  Mather 
in  his  own  Handwriting.    T.  Prince." 

"Sion  in  Distress  "  [By]  B.  Keach.    Boston.    [8vo.    pp.  128.] 

This  title  is  in  Prince's  manuscript  catalogue,  where 
the  entry  describes  it  as  "db"  (deficient  at  the  begin- 
ning). A  second  edition  of  this  tract,  168 1 ,  in  the 
British  Museum  has  the  additional  words,  "or,  the 
Groans  of  the  Protestant  Church/'  and  the  Catalogue 
says  it  is  in  verse. 


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A  Song  of  |  Deliverance  |  for  the  |  Lasting  Remembrance  |  Of 
Gods  wonderful  works  |  never  to  be  forgotten.  |  Contain- 
ing in  it  the  wonderful  defeat  of  the  Spanish-  |  Armado, 
Anno,  1588.  the  woful  Plague,  Anno,  1603.  |  soon  upon 
the  Entrance  of  King  James  of  famous  memo-  |  ry,  unto 
the  Crown  of  England.  |  With  a  discovery  of  the  Powder 
Plot,  Anno,  1605.  |  and  downfall  of  Black  Fryers,  when  an 
hellish  I  Crew  of  Papists  met  to  hear  Drury  a  Popish  Priest, 
An  1623.  I  Also  the  Grievous  Plague,  Anno,  1625,  with 
Poems  both  Latin  |  and  English,  and  the  Verses  of  that 
Learned  Theodore  Beza.  |  —  |  By  that  Reverend,  and  emi- 
nent man  of  God,  Mr.  John  Wilson,  |  formerly  Christs 
faithful  Shepherd  in  Sudbury,  in  Suffolk  in  |  great  Brittain, 
where  these  heavenly  Poems,  and  spiritual  |  Songs  were 
Compiled,  and  at  London  printed,  Anno,  |  1626.  since 
Pastor  to  the  first  Church  of  Christ  in  |  Boston  in  New- 
England.  I  —  I  For  the  sake  of  several  who  have  much 
desired  to  see  and  |  read  this  work,  it  is  reprinted.  |  —  | 
[Three  lines  from  Psal.  cvii.  8.]  |  —  ||  Boston,  Printed  in 
the  Year,  1680.  8vo.  pp.  (1),  (2),  (4),  44.  Signatures,  [A] 
to  C  in  eights,  D  in  four,  last  leaf  blank.  Size,  4  by  5! 
inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  border  line,  verso  blank ;  2  pp. 
"  Christian  Reader,"  signed  "  Yours  to  serve  in  Christ  Jesus  | 
John  Wilson,"  at  the  left  "  Imprimatur.  |  James  Allin,"  headline 
on  the  second  page,  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces  ;  4  pp. 
"  The  Introduction  from  out  of  the  xxxi.  of  |  Deuteronomy, 
where  God  chargeth  Moses  to  |  make  his  Song,"  in  verse,  head- 
piece a  line  of  border  pieces,  catchword  "  A  "  at  foot  of  the 
fourth  page  between  two  rules;  1-44,  "A  Song  of  Thanks- 
giving I  for  the  lasting  Remem-  |  brance  of  Gods  wonder-  |  ful 
work,  never  to  be  forgotten,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces, 
running  headlines ;  "  Finis  "  on  last  page. 

Copies  :  Lenox  Library  and  New  York  Historical  Society. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  u9 

The  Sting  of  Death  |  and  |  Death  Vnstvng  |  delivered  in  two  | 
Sermons  |  In  which  is  shewed  |  The  Misery  of  the  Death 
of  those  that  dye  in  their  Sins,  &  out  |  of  Christ,  and  the 
Blessedness  of  theirs  that  Dye  in  the  Lord.  |  Preached  on 
the  occasion  of  the  Death  of  the  truely  noble  and  virtuous 
|  The  Lady  Mildmay.  |  —  |  By  Leonard  Hoar,  M.  D.  | 
Sometime  Preacher  of  Gods  Word  in  Wanstead.  |  —  | 
[Three  lines  from  Psalms  xlix.  14;  two  lines  from  Eccles. 
viii.  13,  14;  four  lines  from  verse  14;  two  lines  from  Isa. 
iii.  10,  11  ;  two  lines  from  verse  11  ;  two  lines  from  Psalms 
xlviii.  14;  four  lines  from  Rev.  ii.  10.]  |  — 1|  Boston,  Printed 
by  John  Foster.    1680.    4to.  (1),  (6),  24.    Signatures,  A  to 
D  in  fours.    Size,  5I  by  6|  inches. 
Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  wide  border  line,  verso  blank ; 
6  pp.  "  To  Mris  Bridget  Usher  my  |  ever  honoured  Aunt," 
signed  "  Josiah  Flint,"  and  dated  at  "  Dorchester,  from  my 
Study,  I  7th.  of  5th.  1680,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces 
and  a  line  of  similar  pieces  inverted,  headlines ;  1-24,  "  Death 
Disarmed,  |  being  a  |  Funeral  Sermon  |  Upon   1   Cor.  15.  55, 
[and  one  line  from  the  Bible],"  headpiece  similar  to  that  at  the 
beginning  of  the  Preface  ;  "  Finis  "  at  foot  of  the  page  followed 
by  a  rule. 

Copies :  Boston  Public  Library,  Harvard  College  Library, 
and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

In  the  upper  margin,  at  the  beginning  of  the  preface, 
of  the  Historical  Society's  copy,  is  written  "  Samuel  Check- 
ley  His  Booke."  In  the  upper  right-hand  corner  is  also 
written  "  N.  Clap.  26.  12.  [  ]  Boug[ht]  at  M[r.]  Brun- 
n[ing].  The  name  "  N.  Clap,"  referred  to  by  Mr.  Up- 
ham  in  his  note  on  page  432  of  the  Proceedings  (second 
series,  IX.)  of  the  Historical  Society,  for  February,  1895, 
is  written  in  the  same  hand.    Joseph  Brunning  was  a  book- 


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seller  who  came  to  Boston  from  Amsterdam  in  the  year 


MDCLXXXI.  |  —  |  An  |  Almanack  |  of  |  Ccelestial  Motions 
for  the  Year  of  the  |  Christian  Epocha,  |  1 68 1 .  |  Being  in 
our  Account  second  after  Leap-year :  |  And  from  the  Crea- 
tion, |  5630.  I  —  I  The  Vulgar  Notes.  | 


I  —  I  Calculated  for  the  Meridian  of  Boston  in  New-  | 
England,  where  the  Artick  Pole  is  elevated  |  42  Degrees  & 
30  Minutes.  |  —  |  By  John  Foster,  Astrophil.  |  —  |  [One 
line  from  Eph.  v.  16.]  |  — 1|  Boston;  Printed  by  J.  F. 
1 68 1.  i2mo.  pp.  (24).  Signature  in  twelve.  Size,  38 
by  6  inches. 

Titlepage  surrounded  by  a  line  of  border  pieces,  verso  blank ; 
1  p.  "Eclipses  in  1681,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  catch- 
word "  The  " ;  1  p.  "  Directions  for  the  Use  of  the  following  | 
Ephemeris";  12  pp.  March  to  February;  3  pp.  "Of  Comets, 
I  Their  Motion,  Distance  &  Magnitude,"  headpiece  a  line  of 
border  pieces  and  a  rule,  running  headlines ;  3  pp.  "  Observa- 
tions of  a  Comet  seen  this  last  |  Winter  1680.  and  how  it  ap- 
peared at  Boston  |  in  N-E.  whose  Long.  315.  gr.  and  |  Latitude. 
42  gr.  30  min.  N.,"  headpiece  like  the  preceding  one,  headlines, 
catchword  at  foot  of  third  page,  below  a  rule,  "  Spring-Tides."  ; 
1  p.  "Spring-tides  in  the  Year  1681,"  followed  by  a  notice,  in 
five  lines,  correcting  the  latitude  of  Boston  to  "42.  gr.  24.  m." 
below  which  is  a  rule  and  "  Erratvm,"  in  three  lines ;  1  p.  "  The 
Copernican  System,"  with  a  wood-cut  representing  the  sun  by  a 
face  in  the  centre,  and  six  concentric  circles  showing  the  orbits  of 


1683,  and  died  in  the  spring  of  1691.  His  name  is  often 
written  Browning. 


1681. 


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121 


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1  ALMANACK 


Ccete&al  Motions  for  the  Year  of  the 
CbriftUn  Epccb^ 

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Bei'os  iff  our  Account  fecond  aftjc  Lesp-year : 

•And  From  the  Creation,  Jg^ 

s  «J  *   g> 

<1  The  Vulgar  Notes.  f| 


^   Golden  Narofr.   10  )  (  Epa&  20. 


<gj   Cydeof the  Sui/10  £5  Rom.  India.  "4*  S|L 

^   ,Domiaic.tet*     8*  S  /  Nam.  Dire#.  13.  ScX 

^  .  1±   w 

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*2)§5  CaJcubted  for  the  Meridian  c/Bofton  w»  New 
^  England,  t&  Artkk  Pole  it  ekvmd 
idhi  4*  Degrees  &  50  Minutes. 

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122 


JOHN  FOSTER 


the  planets,  and  stars  in  the  corners  of  the  square,  twelve  lines  of 
poetry  with  "  T.  S,"  at  the  right-hand  side,  end  of  the  last  line ; 
<c  Finis  "  at  foot  of  the  page. 

Copies :  American  Antiquarian  Society  and  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society. 

This  copy  has  the  autograph  signature  of  Judge  Sewall 
written  at  the  top  of  the  titlepage,  with  notes  in  his  hand 
on  several  pages.  Just  below  the  notice  relative  to  the 
Boston  latitude,  Sewall  wrote,  — "  The  |  Author  Dyed 
Sept.  9.  168 1.";  also  just  above  the  cut  "vide  Caryl  Job 
9.  6.  p.  183/'  ;  and  at  the  left  of  the  verses,  —  "taken 
out  of  a  Printed  Booke  bound  up  wth  others/'  The  cut 
on  the  last  page  was  made  perhaps  by  Foster  himself. 

MDCLXXXI.  I  —  I  An  I  Almanack  |  [title  continues  the  same 
as  the  preceding  one].  .  .  .  |  —  ||  Boston  :  Printed  by  J.  F.  for 
Samuel  Phillips  |  in  the  west  end  of  the  Exchange.  1681. 
i6mo.    pp.  (24).    First  two  and  last  two  leaves,  a  signature 
in  four ;  the  remaining  leaves  a  signature  in  eight,  both  sig- 
natures making  one  fold.    Size,  4  by  6^  inches,  untrimmed. 
Collation  same  as  in  the  first  issue ;  but  in  the  verses  on 
the  last  page  the  spacing  in  the  last  line  is  reduced  and  the  ini- 
tials "  T.  S."  are  changed  to  cc  T.  Street."    Another  correction  is 
the  centring  of  the  heading  <f  The  Copernican  System." 
Copy  :  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

This  issue  of  the  almanac  is  interleaved  with  a  sheet 
of  the  same  kind  of  paper  as  that  of  the  almanac  itself. 
Six  leaves  in  one  fold,  with  an  extra  leaf,  three  pages  of 
which  contain  shorthand  notes ;  and  two  leaves  in  one 
fold  are  sewed  in  at  the  middle  of  the  pamphlet.  A  few 
shorthand  notes  appear  in  the  margins  of  the  printed  pages. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  123 

Heavens  Alarm  to  the  World.  |  Or  |  A  Sermon  |  wherein  is 
shewed,  |  That  fearful  Sights  and  Signs  in  Heaven  |  are  the 
Presages  of  great  Ca-  |  lamities  at  hand.  |  —  |  By  Increase 
Mather;  Teacher  of  a  Church  |  in  Boston  in  New-England. 
I  —  I  [Two  lines  from  Jer.  vi.  17  ;  four  lines  from  Joel  ii. 
30,  31  ;  three  lines  from  Rev.  viii.  10;  two  lines  from  Rev. 
xi.  14.]  I  — ||  Boston;  Printed  by  John  Foster.  168 1 . 
4to.  pp.  (1),  (3),  17.  Signatures,  A  to  C  in  fours.  Size, 
5l  by  7I  inches. 

Titlepage,  surrounded  by  a  border  line,  verso  blank ;  3  pp. 
<cTo  the  Reader,"  signed  by  "  Increase  Mather,"  and  dated  at 
"Boston  N-E.  12.  Moneth,  |  Vulgo  Febr.  16.  |  1680.  |  (1," 
headlines,  marginal  notes ;  1  p.  blank ;  1— 17,  "  Heavens  Alarm 
to  the  World.  |  —  |  Luk.  21.  11.  .  .  .  [Two  lines  from  the  Bi- 
ble]," headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  two  rules,  and  a  line  of 
similar  border  pieces  inverted,  headlines,  marginal  notes ;  "  Tibi 
Domine  "  in  middle  of  the  page,  followed  by  a  rule ;  1  p.  blank. 

Copies  :  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston  Public  Library, 
Harvard  College  Library,  and  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

In  the  "  Observations  of  a  Comet  seen  this  last  Winter 

1680,  "  which  appears  near  the  end  of  his  almanac  for 

168 1,  Foster  says,  under  date  of  January  24,  1680-81,  that 

after  this  it  was  seen  (though  but  obscurely)  till  the  10.  of  this 
Instant  February,  but  is  now  so  far  exiled  that  it  is  beyond  the 
view  of  a  naked  eye,  but  by  the  help  of  a  good  Telescope  may  be 
for  some  time  yet  discerned. 

At  the  end  of  the  "Observations"  he  says:  — 

But  of  these  things  we  have  lately  heard  in  Publick  by  a  Rever- 
end Divine  among  us,  in  a  Sermon  occasioned  by  this  Ominous 
Appearance,  shewing  That  prodigious  Sights  and  Signs  in  heaven 
are  many  times  Presages  of  great  Calamityes  coming  upon  the 


I24 


JOHN  FOSTER 


World ;  which  at  the  desire  of  many  is  forthwith  to  be  made  pub- 
lick,  to  which  we  may  refer  our  selves  for  the  knowledge  of  what  con- 
cerns us  being  under  such  heavenly  Warnings. 

The  "  Observations  "  were  written  on  February  10,  or 
soon  afterward,  while  the  preface  of  "  Heaven's  Alarm " 
referred  to  in  the  preceding  extract  was  written  on  the 
1 6th  of  the  same  month.  Foster  was  undoubtedly  printing 
"  Heavens  Alarm  "  soon  after  the  almanac  went  to  press, 
and  may  have  already  begun  to  print.  The  title,  pref- 
ace, and  the  first  leaf  of  the  text  form  signature  A.  This 
work  was  probably  the  last  of  Foster's  issues. 

In  a  letter  from  Simon  Bradstreet  to  Increase  Mather, 
dated  at  "  N  :  London,  April  20^  81,"  printed  in  the  Col- 
lections (fourth  series,  VIII.  477)  of  the  Historical  Society, 
he  says :  — 

Sr,  I  have  read  your  sermon,  occasioned  by  the  dreadfull 
Comet,  and  now  according  to  my  wonted  manner  send  to  begge 
one,  (that  I  saw  being  only  vpon  loan)  haveing  not  hetherto 
mett  with  any  repulse,  which  is  no  small  encouragement  to  beg- 
gars.   Whatever  you  print,  I  ever  promis  myself  an  Interest  in. 


TITLES   PROBABLY  PRINTED  BY 

FOSTER 


I  give  here  also  a  list  of  titles  that  were  printed  with- 
out doubt  by  Foster,  but  they  do  not  bear  his  name.  In 
some  instances  I  have  stated  my  reasons  for  referring  them 
to  his  work,  and  in  others  I  have  judged  partly  from  the 
use  of  particular  fonts  of  type,  and  partly  from  the  border 
pieces. 

1675- 

[Divine  Examples  of  Gods  Severe  Judgments  upon  Sabbath 
Breakers,  in  their  Unlawful  Sports,  Collected  out  of  several 
Divine  Subjects,  Viz.  Mr.  H.  B.  Mr.  Beard,  and  the  Practice 
of  Piety :  a  fit  Monument  for  our  present  Times,  etc.] 
Broadside.  Folio. 

This  heading  of  a  supposed  Foster  imprint  is  made  up 
from  that  of  the  Boston  edition,  "  Re-Printed  and  sold  in 
Newbury  Street "  sometime  after  May  3,  1708,  an  account 
of  which  is  given  on  pages  13-15.  It  is  placed  under 
the  year  1675,  but  may  have  been  printed  as  late  as 
1680. 

1676. 

A  I  Funeral  Elegy  |  Vpon  the  Death  of  that  Excellent  and  most 
worthy  Gentleman  |  John  Winthrop  Esq.  |  Late  Governour 


126  JOHN  FOSTER 

of  his  Majestyes  Colony  of  Conecticot:  |  Who  deceased  April, 
1676.  I  Anagr.  SftSEfwKiii:      Broadside.    Folio.    Size,  about 
10  by  11  inches. 
Two  columns  in  verse,  surrounded  by  a  heavy  black  border  in 
four  parts,  the  one  at  the  top  rounded  but  of  slightly  different 
shape  from  that  in  the  first  broadside  ;  begins  as  follows :  — 

LEt  woe  be  printed  nigh  unto  our  Land, 
Since  that  Jehovahs  formidable  hand 
Hath  been  bereaving  us  this  fatal  year, 
Of  such  a  Star  within  our  Hemisphere. 

And  ends  in  the  second  column ;  followed  by  "  Accrosticon,"  in 
twelve  lines,  of  which  the  two  last  are :  — 

Oh  may  this  dismal  loss  ne'r  be  forgot, 
Per  Plimouth,  Boston,  and  Conecticot 

followed  by  the  word  "  Epitaph,"  and  four  lines  given  below :  — 

HEre  lyes  a  None-such  for  all  virtuous  things. 
Fittest  to  be  discoursed  of  by  Kings. 

Mors  omnibus  communis 
Finis. 

Copy :  once  in  possession  of  the  late  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  Jr. 

The  sheet  bears  the  following  indorsement :  "  For 
Major  Fitz  Jno  Winthrop,  his  much  Honord  friend  from 
yor  humble  serv*  Steph :  Chester  Wethersfield,  July  prim 
1680."  Perhaps  Mr.  Chester  was  the  author  of  the  Elegy. 
See  Collections  (sixth  series,  V.  7,  8)  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society,  for  two  letters  from  him,  dated  respec- 
tively, April  7  and  17,  1677,  at  Weathersfield,  Connecticut, 
which  have  probable  allusions  to  these  lines. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  127 

A  I  Funeral  Tribute  |  To  the  Honourable  Dust  of  that  Most 
Charitable  Christian,  Vnbiassed  Politician,  |  And  unimitable 
Pyrotechnist  |  John  Winthrope  esq :  |  A  Member  of  the 
Royal  Society,  &  Governour  of  Conecticut  Colony  in  | 
New-England.  |  Who  expired  in  his  Countreys  Service,  April. 
6th.  1676.  Broadside.  Folio.  Size,  about  10  by  12  inches. 
Two  columns  in  verse,  separated  by  a  double  rule,  the  whole 

surrounded  by  a  heavy  black  border  in  four  parts,  the  one  at  the 

top  heavier  and  arched  on  the  lower  side,  a  rule  below  the  title ; 

signed  "  B.  Thompson." 

Copy :  once  in  possession  of  the  late  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  Jr. 

This  elegy,  mentioned  on  the  titlepage  of  "  New  Eng- 
lands  Tears  for  her  Present  Miseries"  (London,  1676),  was 
written  soon  after  Winthrop's  death,  and  printed  also  at  the 
end  of  the  work.  There  it  has  seventy-two  lines,  not 
counting  the  heading;  but  in  the  broadside  there  are 
eighty-eight,  arranged  in  two  columns. 

According  to  "A  New  and  Further  Narrative  of  the 
State  of  New-England  .  .  .  from  March  till  August, 
1676,"  in  the  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  being  a  letter 
written  from  Boston  by  N.  S.,  this  sheet  was  printed  here 
before  July  22.  Without  doubt  it  was  issued  from  the 
press  of  John  Foster,  as  at  that  period  he  was  the  only 
printer  in  Boston.  From  the  fact  that  both  Foster  and 
Tompson  were  graduates  of  Harvard  College  within  five 
years  of  each  other,  and  on  that  account  presumably  more 
or  less  intimate,  and  from  its  general  appearance,  I  am 
inclined  to  think  that  it  came  from  the  Boston  press. 
See  Proceedings  (second  series,  X.  270,  271)  of  the 
Historical  Society. 


128  JOHN  FOSTER 

A 

FUNERAL  TRIBUTE 

To  the  Honourable  Dust  of  the  most  Charitable  Christian,  Vnbiased  Politician, 

And  unimitable  Pyrotechnist 

John  Winthrope  esq: 

A  Member  of  the  Royal  Society,       Governour  of  Conecticut  Colony  in 

NE  JV-ENGLAND. 

who  expired  in  his  Countreys  Service,  April.  6th.  1676. 

ANother  Black  Parenthesis  of  woe 
The  Printer  wills  that  all  the  World  should  know 
Sage  Winthrop  prest  with  publick  sorrow  Dies 
As  the  Sum  total  of  our  Miseries : 

His  labours  cease  for  ever,  but  the  fruit 
He  reaps  at  Fountain  head  without  dispute. 

Lamentations  |  Vpon  the  never  enough  bewailed  Death  of  the 
Reverend  |  Mr.  John  Reiner,  |  Pastor  of  the  Church  of 
Christ  at  Dover  who  was  gathered  to  his  Fathers  |  December, 
21.1676.    Broadside.    Folio.    Size,  9!  by  n|  inches. 
Heading  followed  by  the  text  in  verse,  printed  in  two  col- 
umns, separated  by  a  wide  rule,  with  a  wide  border  rule  at  the 
sides  of  the  sheet  and  a  wider  one  at  the  top  turning  down  at  the 
ends,  curved  on  the  inside,  to  meet  the  side  rules  ;  the  lower  part  of 
the  sheet  torn  off,  leaving  in  the  first  column  forty-four  lines  of 
verse  and  one  mutilated,  and  in  the  second,  forty-four  and  two 
mutilated. 

Copy :  Boston  Athenaeum. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST 


Judge  Sewall  in  his  Diary,  1 676,  says :  — 

Dec.  21,  being  Thorsday,  Worthy  Mr.  Reyner  fell  asleep: 
was  taken  with  a  violent  vomiting  the  Friday  before,  Lightheaded 
by  Saturday,  Lay  speechless  24  hours,  and  then  died  on  Thorsday 
even.  We  heard  not  that  he  was  sick  till  Friday  about  9  at 
night :  on  the  Sabbath  morn,  comes  William  Furber  and  brings 
the  newes  of  Death.  After  last  exercise  Father  dispatches  Tim  to 
Braintry.  .  .  .  Note.  None  of  us  saw  Mr.  Reyner  Oct.  21,  for 
he  posted  to  Braintrey  in  the  night,  and  he  went  back  when  I  was 
at  Sandwich.  .  .  .  (i.  31.) 

Dec.  28.  Mr.  Willard  preaches.  N.  B.  I  got  but  just  to 
hear  the  text.  This  day  pleasant  and  smiling  were  it  not  the  day 
of  Mr.  Reyner' s  Funeral.  .  .  .  (i.  32.) 

Jan.  30  [1676-77].  Sent  a  letter  to  Cousin  Quinsey,  which 
enclosed  a  piece  of  Gold  that  cost  me  23s.  Gave  the  Letter  to  Mr. 
Jesson.  .  .  .  Sent  him  a  copy  of  verses  made  on  Mr.  Reyner. 
(i-  34-) 

John  Hull,  in  his  Diary  (Archaeologia  Americana,  III. 
242)  for  December,  1676,  says:  — 

21st.  Mr.  John  Reynor,  minister  of  Dover  died  of  a  cold  and 
fever  that  he  took  in  the  field  among  the  soldiers. 

[New  Englands  Crisis.    Boston,  1676.]    i6mo.    pp.  31. 

Titlepage  wanting,  also  first  leaf,  4  pp.  in  all  ;  4  pp.  and  p.  9, 
"  New  Englands  Crisis  |  —  |  The  Prologue : ",  headpiece,  four 
lines  of  border  pieces,  and  a  rule  in  the  middle,  the  two  lower  ones 
inverted,  and  the  two  inner  lines  of  smaller  pieces  ;  10-21, "  New- 
Englands  Crisis";  22,  "A  Supplement";  22-26,  "  Marlburyes 
Fate  "  ;  26,  27,  "  The  Town  called  Providence  |  Its  Fate  "  ;  27,  28, 
"  Seaconk  Plain  Engagement";  28,  29,  "  Seaconk  or  Rehoboths 
Fate";  29,  "  Chelmsfords  Fate,"  signed,  "  B.  Tompson,"  30,  31, 
c  On   A    Fortification  |  At    Boston    begun    by  Women.  |  Dux 

9 


i3o  JOHN  FOSTER 

Foemina  Facti  "  ;  "  Finis,"  between  two  rules  ;  headlines,  "  New- 
Englands  Crisis  "  ;  verso  of  page  31  blank;  closely  trimmed. 
Copy  :  Boston  Athenaeum. 

The  "  Supplement  "  to  this  poem  by  Benjamin  Tomp- 
son,  appeared  as  a  London  edition  with  the  title  "  New 
Englands  Tears  for  her  Present  Miseries/ '  with  the  "  Fu- 
neral Tribute  "  to  John  Winthrop  added.  For  the  same 
reason  as  given  under  the  Winthrop  "Tribute"  mentioned 
above,  "New  Englands  Crisis"  was  probably  printed  by 
Foster.  For  a  further  account  of  the  poem  see  Proceed- 
ings (second  series,  X.  269-273)  of  the  Massachusetts  His- 
torical Society. 

1677. 

Innocency's  Complaint  |  against  |  Tyrannical  Court  Faction  in 
Newengland.    Broadside.    Folio.    Size,  iol  by  13I  inches. 

Heading,  followed  by  two  columns  of  poetry,  separated  by  a 
perpendicular  line  of  fine  border  pieces,  signed  at  the  end  of  the 
second  column,  "George  Joy,  Mariner.  1677." 

Copy  :  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

This  perhaps  was  one  of  Foster's  prints.  It  relates  to 
the  persecution  of  the  Quakers  in  New  England,  and  much 
of  it  is  quoted  in  John  Whiting's  "  Truth  and  Innocency 
Defended,"  which  appears  in  the  Appendix  of  George 
Bishop's  "  New-England  Judged  "  (London,  1703). 

1678. 

["  An  Invitation  unto  Thirsty  Sinners  to  come  unto  their  Saviour.'' 
By  Rev.  Thomas  Allen.]  [Cambridge  or  Boston.]  i2mo. 
pp.  (2  ?),  5-104.  Signatures,  A  to  I  in  sixes.  Size,  2%  by  4 
inches. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  131 

Titlepage  wanting,  except  two  ends  of  the  border  line  in  the 
lower  left-hand  corner,  verso  blank  ? ;  5-8,  "  To  the  Reader," 
headpiece  two  rules,  headlines,  signed  at  foot  of  page  "John  Hig- 
ginson," and  dated  July  20.  |  1678.,  catchword  on  the  last  page 
"Thirsty";  9-104,  "Thirsty  Sinners  |  Invited  to  |  Christ  |  —  | 
Joh.  VII.  xxxvii.  [and  four  lines  from  the  Bible],"  headpiece  two 
rules,  running  headlines ;  pages  at  end  wanting. 

Copy :  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

Thomas  Allen,  Minister  of  Charlestown  from  1639  to 
1 65 1,  when  he  returned  to  Norwich,  England,  to  continue 
preaching  there.  He  died  on  September  21,  1673,  age(^ 
65  years.  Cotton  Mather  (Magnalia,  Book  III.  215)  says 
of  him :  — 

Though  he  staid  not  very  long  in  this  country,  yet  this  coun- 
try lays  claim  especially  to  two  of  his  composures,  which  have  been 
serviceable  unto  the  world.  The  former  of  these  was  printed  here; 
namely,  "  An  invitation  unto  Thirsty  Sinners  to  come  unto  their 
Saviour ; "  prefaced  and  assisted  into  the  light  by  our  worthy 
Higginson.  But  the  latter  was  printed  beyond  the  sea;  and 
entituled,  "A  Chain  of  Scripture  Chronology." 

Mr.  Higginson  himself,  in  the  preface,  says :  — 

Being  importuned  by  a  Friend  to  write  a  short  Epistle  before 
this  ensuing  Sermon,  (he  himself  being  much  Affected  with  it, 
desired  the  Printing  of  it,  for  the  use  of  his  Friends:)  I  could  not 
refuse  the  motion ;  conceiving  the  Subject  Matter  of  it  may  be 
very  Acceptable,  Seasonable,  and  Profitable  to  many  Souls,  into 
whose  hands  by  the  Providence  of  God  it  may  come. 

The  Author  of  it,  Mr.  'Thomas  Allen>  was  sometimes  Teacher 
of  the  Church  at  Charlstown  ;  He  was  much  Beloved,  and  his 
Ministry  highly  Prized  by  the  People  there ;  from  thence  he 


i32  JOHN  FOSTER 

removed  to  the  city  of  Norwich  in  Old  England,  where  he  fulfilled 
his  Ministry  for  many  Years.  After  his  Decease,  divers  of  his 
Sermons  were  Printed,  amongst  which  this  was  one;  which  was 
not  intended  nor  prepared  for  the  Press  by  himself,  but  taken  in 
short  Hand  from  the  Mouth  of  the  Preacher;  .  .  . 

Thomas  Prince,  in  his  manuscript  catalogue,  gives  a 
title,  "  T.  Allen  Call  of  X  to  Thirsty  Sinners  .  .  .  Camb 
78  [pp.]  31,"  which  was  without  doubt  another  edition 
of  the  same  work. 


1679. 

Something  in  Answer  to  a  |  Law  |  Lately  made  at  the  first  Sessions 
of  the  I  General  Court  held  at  Boston  in  |  New-England  | 
May  the  28th,  1679.  I  And  published  by  their  Order,  Edw, 
Rawson  Secretary  |  —  |  The  Title  of  the  Law,  viz.  |  Meet- 
ing-Houses not  to  be  Erected  with-  |  out  License,  &c.  4to. 
pp.  20.  Signatures,  A,  B  in  fours,  C  in  two.  Size,  about  5I 
by  7  inches. 

Heading,  as  given  above,  followed  by  text,  1-18,  signed, 

M™e?M 679^  ?th}  G*  F"";  I9'  2°'  " PostscriPt'"  headPiece 
a  rule ;  "  The  End  "  at  the  foot  of  page  20. 

Copies :  British  Museum  and  John  Carter  Brown  Library. 

A  reference  to  this  tract  appears  in  the  Appendix 
to  George  Bishop's  "New-England  Judged"  (London, 
1703,  page  102),  John  Whiting's  "Truth  and  Innocency 
Defended"  (London,  1702).  The  title  is  entered  in 
Sabin's  Dictionary  under  George  Fox.  It  may  have  been 
printed  in  Boston. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST 


1680. 

June,  29.  1680.  I  The  Church  Renewed  |  Covenant,  |  as  fol- 
loweth.  8vo.  pp.  (6).  Signature  A  in  four.  Size,  3!  by 
5I  inches. 

Heading,  as  given  above,  followed  by  text,  6  pp.,  headline  two 
lines  of  fine  border  pieces,  the  lower  one  inverted,  with  a  rule 
between,  headlines  "  The  Covenant ";  "  Soli  Deo  Gloria  "  at  foot 
of  last  page  between  two  rules ;  last  leaf  blank. 

Copy :  Lenox  Library. 

This  is  a  covenant  of  the  Third  Church  known 
commonly  as  the  Old  South. 

1681. 

[Brief  Animadversions  on  the  Narrative  of  the  New  England 
Anabaptists.    By  Increase  Mather.    Boston,  1681.] 

This  title  is  taken  from  Haven's  List,  and  from  Sabin's 
Dictionary.  A  reference  to  the  work  appears  in  a  letter 
from  Simon  Bradstreet  to  Increase  Mather,  dated  "  N : 
London,  April  20*  81,"  and  printed  in  the  Collections 
(fourth  series,  VIII.  477)  of  the  Historical  Society :  — 

I  think  I  never  sent  you  my  thankes  for  your  last  Letter,  & 
your  book  against  Anabaptists,  if  not,  it  is  time  now  to  doe  it. 

Mather's  "  Divine  Right  of  Infant-Baptisme  Asserted/' 
which  contained  reflections  on  the  Baptists,  was  published 
early  in  1680.  The  society  of  Baptists  in  Boston  was 
defended  by  the  Narrative  of  John  Russell,  dated,  accord- 
ing to  Isaac  Backus's  History  of  the  Baptists  (I.  490), 


134  JOHN  FOSTER 

at  "  Boston,  the  20th  of  this  month,  with  the  consent 
of  the  whole  church,  and  sent  to  London  "  to  be  printed. 
Presumably  the  "  Brief  Animadversions  "  by  Mather  fol- 
lowed early  in  1681,  although  it  is  not  mentioned  by 
Backus.  In  the  fall  of  1681  Samuel  Willard  published  his 
"  Ne  sutor  ultra  crepidam :  or  brief  animadversions  upon 
the  New-England  anabaptists  late  fallacious  narrative.,> 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  LIST  135 


BOOK    ONCE    BELONGING    TO  THE 
FOSTER  FAMILY 

I  give  below  the  collation  of  an  early  Cambridge 
book,  which  was  printed  without  doubt  by  Samuel  Green 
or  Marmaduke  Johnson  or  perhaps  by  both.  While  the 
copy  had  no  connection  with  John  Foster's  work,  it  is 
mentioned  here  because  it  was  once  in  the  possession  of  his 
family.  I  give  also  fac-simile  reproductions  of  the  title, 
and  the  next  two  pages.  The  second  cut  shows  the  signa- 
ture probably  of  Mary  Foster,  a  sister  of  the  printer,  and 
of  Comfort  Foster,  a  brother.  See  page  50  for  the 
several  members  of  the  family.  The  signature  cf  Mary 
Foster,  perhaps  the  mother,  in  the  third  cut  may  have 
been  written  by  the  son,  as  the  resemblance  between  this 
and  his  own  writing  as  shown  on  page  5 1  is  very  close. 
Near  the  top  of  the  first  cut  is  the  name  of  James  Foster, 
almost  illegible,  who  was  another  brother.  The  Red 
Lion  tavern  stood  near  the  North  Square,  at  the  corner 
of  North  and  Richmond  Streets,  as  now  known. 

Christs  I  Famous  Titles,  |  And  A  |  Believers  |  Golden-Chain; 
Handled  in  divers  Sermons.  |  Together  with  his  Cabinet  of  | 
Jewels,  or  a  Glimpse  of  Sions  |  Glory.  |  —  |  By  William 
Dyer,  |  Preacher  of  the  Gospel.  |  —  |  Ephes.  3.  8.  |  [and 
four  lines  from  Bible]  |  — 1|  Printed  at  Cambridge :  |  Sold 


136 


JOHN  FOSTER 


by  John  Farnham  near  the  Red  Lyon  |  in  Boston.  1669. 
8vo.  pp.  (1),  (4),  (4),  244.  Signatures  A  to  Q  in  eights, 
last  leaf  of  signature  Q  missing.  Size,  3I  by  5I  inches. 
Titlepage  surrounded  by  a  border  line,  verso  blank ;  4  pp. 
"  To  all  my  loving  Friends,  |  into  whose  hands  these  |  shall  come, 
Greeting/'  signed  by  "  William  Dyer,"  headpiece  nine  urn-shaped 
border  pieces  and  a  brace  at  the  end,  running  headlines  on  second 
and  third  pages,  headline  on  fourth  page,  catchword  "  To  "  at  foot 
of  page ;  4  pp.  "  To  |  the  Christian  |  Reader.  |  —  |  signed  by 
"  William  Dyer,"  same  arrangement  of  headlines  as  in  first  part, 
catchword  "  The  "  near  foot  of  page  between  two  rules,  headpiece  two 
lines  of  border  pieces  the  lower  one  inverted;  1-17,  "The  Desire 
of  all  Nations.  |  —  |  Canticles  5.  the  last  Verse.  J  He  is  altogether 
lovely,"  headpiece  a  line  of  border  pieces,  headlines;  17-72,  "The 
King  of  Kings.  |  Canticles.  5.  16.  |  He  is  altogether  lovely.  |  The 
Doctrine,  That  Jesus  Christ  is  Infinitely  |  and  Superlatively  lovely," 
separated  from  the  first  part  by  a  rule,  headlines  ;  72-92,  "  Mighty 
God.  I  Canticles  5.  16.  |  He  is  altogether  lovely.  |  Doct.  That  Jesus 
Christ  is  infinitely  and  |  superlatively  lovely,"  separated  from  the 
second  part  by  a  rule,  headlines,  catchword  "  The "  at  foot  of 
page  92;  93-106,  "  The  Everlasting  Father.  |  Canticles  5.  16.  | 
He  is  altogether  lovely.  |  Doct.  That  Jesus  Christ  is  infinitely  and 
Superlatively  lovely,"  headlines,  catchword  "  Prince  "  at  foot  of  the 
last  page;  107-124,  "Prince  of  Peace.  |  [continues  same  as  pre- 
ceding heading],"  catchword  "  The  "  at  foot  of  last  page,  headlines  ; 
125-154,  "The  Elect  Precious  |  [continues  same  as  before],"  head- 
lines, catchword  "Won-"  at  foot  of  last  page;  1 55-1 81,  "Won- 
derfvl  [continues  same  as  before],"  headlines,  catchwords  at  foot 
of  page  181,  "A  Believers";  182-244,  "A  [  Believers  |  Golden 
Chain,"  running  headlines;  "Finis."  at  foot  of  the  page. 
Copy  :  Grant  B.  Schley,  Jr. 


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FAMOUS  TITLES 

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BE.LIEVERS 

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By    WILLIA  M    DYE  R. 
Preacher  of  the  Gofpef.  , 


.    EPHES.  j.  8. 

S^«ftJ  «ff  ?r/;tf  pi^hfs  then  the  leaf?  df; 
i    S  'tnts,  is  this  grace  given,  that  I  fcop.ld 
f)  c  ich  amon^  the  Ger.tiles  the  unftarchablc 


R:chu  of  Chrifl. 


Printed  at  Cambridge 
Sold  by  f  ohn  Farnham  near  the  Red  I  U» 
in  ytoft'on.    i  6  6  9* 


*To  all  my  loving  Friends^ 
into  "ivhpfe  hands  theje 
(hall  come  greeting. 

My  dear  eft  Friends^  ' 

Horn  I  Love  dearly; 
Remember    daily  { 
Long  for  greatly* 
Pray  for  earneftlyj 
and  praife  God  hear- 
ftty,  to  whom  I  could  write  with  my  pu- 
re ft  blood  %  and  do  fend  thefe  lines  from 
my  very  inward  bowels. 

Though  I  cannot  fay  Iamfotranf- 
ported  with  tiffe&ion  and  zeal,  as  Paid,  to 
!h  my  felf  accurfed  from  Chrift  for 
cyeir  lakes  $  yet  I  am  pc'rfwacfed*  I 
could  be  contented  with  foMs^  to  be  caft; 
into  the  Sea,  for  the  pacifying  of  Gods 
wrath  f 6r  you.  That  I'  may  be  free  from* 
Ai 


ENGRAVINGS  BY  FOSTER 


Scheme  for  the  Indian  A.  B.  C. 

For  an  account  of  this,  see  pages  6-8. 

Wood-cut  of  Richard  Mather. 

Impressions  of  this,  made  at  several  times,  are  in 
existence.    See  pages  9-1 1. 

Wood-cut  of  the  seal  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony. 

Two  distinct  cuts  of  this  are  known.    See  pages  11,  12. 

Wood-cuts  in  "  Divine  Examples." 
See  page  14. 

Hubbard's  Map  of  New  England. 

This  map  appeared  in  two  editions,  known  as  "The 
Wine  Hills "  map  and  "The  White  Hills"  map.  See 
pages  12,  15-19. 

View  of  Boston  and  Charlestown  taken  from  Noddles  Island 
(East  Boston). 

An  account  of  this  appears  on  page  13. 


LIST  OF   SHORTENED  TITLES 
PRINTED  BY  FOSTER 


For  general  convenience  and  ready  reference,  the  fol- 
lowing List  of  Shortened  Titles,  with  the  names  of  the 
authors  and  the  year  of  publication,  is  here  given :  — 

Adams,  William.    The  Necessity  of  the  pouring  out  of 

the  Spirit   1679 

Advertisement  [about  lands  in  the  Narragansett  and  Nian- 

tick  Countries]   1678 

Allen,  James.    New  Englands  choicest  Blessing      .    .    .  1679 

Serious  Advice  to  delivered  Ones  from  Sickness    .    .  1679 

Bradstreet,  Mrs.  Anne.    Several  Poems   1678 

Bridge,  William.    Word  to  the  Aged   l&19 

Confession  of  Faith   1680 

Eliot,  John.    A  Brief  Answer  To.  .  .  John  Norcot    .    .  1679 

The  Harmony  of  the  Gospels   1678 

Fitch,  James.     The  first  Principles  of  the  Doctrine  of 

Christ   1679 

Foster,  John.    An  Almanac    1675,  1676,  1678,  1679,  1680,  1681 

Hardy,  Samuel.    A  Guide  to  Heaven  by  ye  Word  .    .    .  1679 

Hoar,  Leonard.    The  Sting  of  Death   1680 

Hubbard,  William.    Happiness  of  a  People   1676 

A  Narrative  of  the  Troubles  with  the  Indians  .    .    .  1677 

Keach,  Benjamin.    The  Grand  Imposter  Discovered    .    .  1678 

Sion  in  Distress  .    .    .   1680 

Mather,  Eleazer.    A  Serious  Exhortation   1678 


140 


JOHN  FOSTER 


Mather,  Increase.    A  Brief  History  of  the  War  with  the 

Indians   1676 

A  Call  from  Heaven   1679 

A  Discourse  Concerning  .  .  .  Apostasy   1679 

The  Divine  Right  of  Infant-Baptisme   1680 

An  Earnest  Exhortation   1676 

Eccles.  XII.  1.    Remember  now  thy  Creator   .    .    .  1679 

Heavens  Alarm  to  the  World   168 1 

An  Historical  Discourse  Concerning  .  .  .  Prayer  .    .  1677 

The  Necessity  of  Reformation   1679 

Pray  for  the  Rising  Generation   1679 

A  Relation  Of  the  Troubles   1677 

Renewal  of  Covenant  the  great  Duty   1677 

Returning  unto  God   1680 

The  Times  of  Men   1675 

The  Wicked  Man's  Portion   1675 

Nowell,  Samuel.    Abraham  in  Arms   1678 

Noyes,  James.    Short  Catechism   1676 

Platform  of  Church  Discipline   1680 

Report  of  the  Trustees  on  Indian  Captives   1678 

Salem.    A  Copy  of  the  Church-Covenants   1680 

Thacher,  Thomas.    A  Brief  Rule  ...  in  the  Small  Pocks, 

or  Measels   1677 

A  Fast  of  God's  chusing   1678 

Willard,  Samuel.    The  Duty  of  a  People   1680 

A  Sermon  preached  upon  Ezek.  22.  30,  31  .  .  .  .  1679 
Williams,  Roger.    An  Answer  to  a  Letter  sent  from  Mr. 

Coddington   1677 

George  Fox  Digg'd  out  of  his  Burrowes   1676 

Wilson,  John.    A  Song  of  Deliverance   1680 


TITLES  PROBABLY  PRINTED  BY 
FOSTER 


Allen,  Thomas.  An  Invitation  unto  Thirsty  Sinners  .  .  1678 
Boston,  June  29,  1680.    The  [Old  South]  Church  Renewed 


Covenant   1680 

Divine  Examples   1 675 

Fox,  George.    Something  in  Answer  to  a  Law    ....  1679 

Funeral  Elegy  Vpon  .  .  .  John  Winthrop   1676 

Joy,  George.     Innocency's  Complaint   1 677 

Lamentations  Vpon  .  .  .  John  Reiner   1676 

Mather,  Increase.     Brief  Animadversions  on  .  .  .  Ana- 
baptists   1681 

Tompson,  Benjamin.    A  Funeral  Tribute  To  .  .  .  John 

Winthrop  (Jr.)   1676 

New  Englands  Crisis   1676 


BOOK  ONCE  OWNED  BY  THE  FOSTER 

FAMILY 

Dyer,  William.    Christs  Famous  Titles  1669 


INDEX 


INDEX 


A.  B.  C,  Indian,  scheme  by  Foster,  1671, 
6-8 

Adams,  Eliphalet,  10 

Adams,  William,  signature,  10,  87 

Addington,  Isaac,  51,  53 

Allen,  James,  imprimatur,  118;  licenser 

of  the  press,  89 
Allen,  Joseph,  19,  20 
Almanac-makers,  45,  46 
American  Antiquarian  Society,  portrait 

of  R.  Mather,  133,  134 
Amsterdam,  13 

Anabaptists,  "Brief  Animadversions,"  by 

I.  Mather,  133,  134 
Andover,  Mass.,  76 
Andrews,  John,  100 
Apostasy,  sermon  on,  by  I.  Mather,  98 
Arnold,  Samuel  Greene,  83 
Avery,  William,  103 

B.  ,  H.  (Henry  Burton),  13,  15,  125 

B.,  C,  verses,  in  "Several  Poems,"  by 

Anne  Bradstreet,  92 
Backus,  Isaac,  133,  134. 
Baily,  John,  autograph,  60,  87,  89,  104, 

106 

Baker,  Silence,  51 

Baker,  Thankfull  (Foster),  47,  50,  51 
Baptism,  "Brief  Answer,"  by  J.  Eliot, 

96,  97  ;  "Divine  Right  of,"  112 
Baptists,  Boston,  133 
Barnes,  Nathaniel,  signature,  82 
Bates,  James,  4 
Bates,  Mary,  4 
Baxter,  Richard,  68 
Baxter,  Thompson,  35 
Bayly,  Lewis,  "Practice  of  Piety,"  15 


Beard,  Thomas,  13,  15,  125 
Belknap,  Jeremy,  23 
Bible,  Indian,  and  Marmaduke  John- 
son, 24 
Blake,  James,  11 

Boston,  First  Church,  28;  imprints, 
1675-1681,  57-134;  imprint,  1708  or 
later,  13-15  ;  Newbury  Street,  14,  125; 
Old  South,  covenant,  133;  press  of  M. 
Johnson  in,  1674,  23,  24;  press  of  John 
Foster,  printer,  1 675-1 681,  6,  23-29; 
press  of  Foster's  successor  burned, 
Sept.  16,  1690,  53;  Second  Church, 
114,  115,  116;  townhouse,  81;  vessel 
blown  up  in  Boston  Harbor,  May  4, 
1675,  26>  60;  view  of,  and  Charles- 
town,  taken  by  Foster,  13 

Brackenbury,  Dr.  Samuel,  death,  117 

Bradstreet,  Anne,  94 

Bradstreet,  Elizabeth,  94 

Bradstreet,  Mrs.  Mercy,  94 

Bradstreet,  Simon,  70,  73,82,  83,94,  124, 
133 

Brattle,  William,  34 

Brigham,   Clarence    Saunders,    on  R. 

Williams's  "Answer,"  71 
Brookfield,  Mass.,  76 
Brown,  Thankfull,  51 
Brunning,  Joseph,  bookseller,  62,  119 
Budd,  Edward,  carver,  in  Boston,  1671, 

8 

Burnet  (Burniat),  John,  67,  68 
Burrough,  Edward,  67 
Burton,  Henry,  13,  15 
Burying-grounds,  by  E.  D.  Harris,  53, 
54 

Byles,  Mather,  autograph,  82 


146 


INDEX 


C.,T.,i5 

Cambridge  imprint,  10,  11,  34,  58;  press, 

Capen,  Joseph,  51;  elegy  on  J.  Foster, 
34-37 

Catechism,  28;  by  J.  Noyes,  70 
Charlestown,   Mass.,   131;    view  from 

Noddles  Island,  taken  by  Foster,  13 
Checkley,  Samuel,  signature,  119 
Chelmsford,  Mass.,  76,  129 
^phester,  Stephen,  126 
Chirurgeons,  46,  47 
Chiswell,  Richard,  printer,  London,  63 
Church  Covenants,  m 
Church  Discipline,  Platform,  1680,  115 
Clap,  N.,  signature,  119 
Coddington,  William,  70,  71 
Columbia,  American  yacht,  29 
Comets,  Foster  on,  in  Almanac  of  168 1, 
45,  46 

Comet,  Observations  on,  123,  124 

Confession  of  Faith,  by  I.  Mather,  108 

Cotton,  John,  28 

Cotton,  Seaborn,  28 

Covenant,  Renewal  of,  by  I.  Mather,  80 

Cranston,  71 

Curwen,  Jonathan,  112 

Curwen,  Samuel,  signature  112 

Danforth,  John,  51,  52 

Day,  Matthew,  Cambridge  press,  23 

Daye,  Stephen,  1638,  Cambridge  press,  23 

Deerfield,  Mass.,  76 

Denison,  Daniel,  73 

Dexter,  Franklin  Bowditch,  5 

Diman,  Jeremiah  Lewis,  69 

"Divine  Examples,"  13-15 

Dorchester,  Mass.,  4,  8,  11 

Dorchester,  Burying-ground,  48;  Church 

of  Christ,  81 
Dover,  N.  H.,  128 

Driver,  Robert,  hanged  in  Boston,  1674, 

26,  60,  62 
Dudley,  Mrs.  Dorothy,  94 
Dudley,  Joseph,  73 
Dudley,  Thomas,  93,  94 
Dyer,  Benjamin,  signature,  104 


Eames,  Thomas,  76 

Eames,  Wilberforce,on  Hubbard's  Narra- 
tive, 1677,  75-78 

Edmundson,  William,  67,  68 

Elegies  on  J.  Foster,  33-42 

Eliot,  John,  50;  Foster  engraving  for, 
1671,  6-8;  Indian  A.  B.  C,  6-8; 
Indian  Bible,  95;  Indian  Dialogues, 
1671,  6,  7 

Eliot,  Joseph,  88 

Engraving,  3,  6-20 

Exchange,  Boston,  108,  109,  122 

Eye-glasses,  1671,  9 

Farnham,  John,  136 

Fast,  65,  81,  103,  112 

Feaver,  Nicholas,  hanged  in  Boston,  1674, 
26,  60,  62 

Fitch,  Jabez,  100 

Flint,  Josiah,  103,  119 

Foster,  Comfort,  41,  50,  135 

Foster,  Elisha,  41,  50,  51 

Foster,  Hopestill,  4,  11,  41,  50 

Foster,  James,  41,  50,  135 

Foster,  John,  as  an  engraver,  3-20;  as  a 
printer,  6,  23-29;  attainments,  45-54; 
buys  Johnson's  press,  24;  death,  11, 
48,  122;  elegies  on,  33-42;  epitaph, 
49;  Samuel  Green's  estimate  of  his 
skill  as  a  printer,  24,  25;  imprints  in 
1675,  25;  inventory,  52,  53;  Latin 
couplet  to  I.  Mather,  48,  49;  press 
to  be  sold  by  executrix,  50;  will,  50, 
51;  works,  bibliographical  list,  57-134 

Foster,  Mary  (Mrs.  Sale),  41,  50,  51, 
135 

Foster,  Mary  (Bates),  4,  38>  5°,  51,  J35 

Foster,  Patience,  41,  50 

Foster,  Standfast,  41,  50,  51 

Foster,  Thankfull  (Mrs.  Baker),  41,  50, 

5i 

Fosters,  T.,  71 

Fox,  George,  67,  69,  71,  132 

Franklin,  Benjamin,  35 

Funeral  service,  verses  placed  or  pinned 

on  the  coffin,  33,  34 
Furber,  William,  129 


INDEX 


147 


Goffe,  William,  64,  67 
Goodspeed,  Charles  Eliot,  13,  15 
Gravestones,  by  E.  D.  Harris,  53,  54 
Green,  Bartholomew,  press,  Boston,  14 
Green,  Samuel,  12,  23,  34,  58>  J35;  on 

J.  Foster,  24,  25 
Griffin,  John,  107 
Griggs,  William,  autograph,  82 

Hadley,  Mass.,  76 

Hardy,  Samuel,  100 

Harris,  Benjamin,  88 

Harris,  Edward  Doubleday,  gravestones 

and  burying-grounds  of  New  England, 

53,  54 

Harvard  College,  3-5,  9,  10,  33,  34,  79; 
graduates  before  second  degree  called 
"Sir,"  7;  rank  according  to  family 
distinction,  5;  rudiments  of  medicine 
taught  at,  47 

Harvard  College  Library,  portrait  of 
R.  Mather,  9,  10 

Hassanemesit,  76 

Hatfield,  Mass.,  76;  Indian  captives,  90 

Hearse,  33,  34 

Henchman,  Daniel,  76 

Higginson,  John,  62,  131 

Hollingsworth,  Sumner,  79 

Holyoke,  Elizur,  76 

Hubbard,  William,  42,  74 

Hubbard,  William,  map  of  New  England, 

12,  15-19,  74,  78,  79 
Hull,  Edward,  13 

Hull,  John,  12,  26  n,  103,  1 10,  1 17,  129 
Humfrey,  James,  52 
Hutchinson,  Elisha,  82,  83 

Indian  A.  B.  C,  1671,  6-8 
Indian  captives,  90 

Indian  Dialogues,  by  J.  Eliot,  1671,  6,  7 
Indian  words,  18 

Jesson,  Jacob,  129 

Johnson,  Marmaduke,  7,  23,  24,  135 

Joyliffe,  John,  90 

Keach,  Benjamin,  88. 


Lake,  Thomas,  death,  117 

Lecture,  5,  26,  27,  60 

Leet,  William,  74 

Leverett,  John,  69-71,  73,  107 

Loseby,  79 

Madan,  Falconer,  88 

Marlborough,  Mass.,  76,  129 

Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  16,  17,  23; 
seal  cut  by  Foster,  II,  12 

Mather,  Cotton,  50,  131 

Mather,  Increase,  12,  23,  25-29,  47,  50, 
61,  65,  86,  89,  91,  100,  103,  no;  in- 
terest in  Foster,  47;  Latin  couplet  to 
Foster,  48,  49;  licenser  of  the  press, 
23,  89 

Mather,  Nathaniel,  letter  to  Increase, 

1684,  19,  20 
Mather,  Richard,  8,  10;  baptized  Foster, 

4,  47;  death,  9,  10;  portrait,  9-1 1 
Mather,  Samuel,  28 
Mather,  Timothy,  28,  52 
Mayhew,  Experience,  7 
Measles,  72 

Medicine,  Foster  and  practice  of,  46,  47 
Metacomet,  63,  65 
Miller,  William,  15 
Ministers,  as  physicians,  46,  47 

Narragansett  Country,  82,  83 

New  England,  Hubbard's  map  of,  1677, 

cut  by  Foster,  12,  15-19,  78,  79 
New  England  Company,  7 
Newport,  R.  I.,  67 
Niantick  Country,  82,  83 
Nicholas,  St.,  79 

Noddles  Island  (East  Boston),  view  of 
Boston  and  Charlestown  from,  by 
Foster,  13 

Norcott,  John,  96,  97 

Northampton,  Mass.,  76,  91 

Norton,  John,  95 

Oakes,  Urian,  112;  licenser  of  the  press, 

89 

Owen,  John,  68 


INDEX 


Paukamaket,  74 
Pequot  War,  73,  74,  80 
Philip,  63,  65,  74;  articles  with,  1671, 
74 

Philip's  War,  63-66,  71,  73,  80,  81 
Phillips,  Henry,  81,  108,  109 
Phillips,  Samuel,  122 
Physicians,  46,  47 

Pickering,  Theophilus,  signature,  112 
Pierce,  John,  on  the  seal  of  the  Colony, 
12 

Pierce,  Richard,  62 

Plymouth,  Mass.,  16,  76 

Plymouth  Colony,  Old  Colony  line  as 

shown  on  Hubbard's  map,  16,  17 
Prayer,  prevalency  of,  by  I.  Mather,  72 
Prince,  Deborah,  62 

Prince,  Thomas,  autograph,  62,  no, 
117;   manuscript  catalogue,  57 

Printing  press  in  Boston,  set  up  by  Foster, 
1675,  6,  23-29 

Providence,  R.  I.,  129 

Psalter,  for  children,  34 

Quakers,  67,  70,  71,  87,  88 
Quincy,  ,  129 

Ranger,  Edmund,  bookseller,  107 
RatclifF,  John,  bookbinder,  no,  in 
Rawson,  Edward,  47,  65,  101,  no 
Red  Lion  Tavern,  Boston,  135,  136 
Rehoboth,  Mass.,  76,  129 
Reiner,  John,  * 'Lamentations"  on,  128, 
129 

Rhode  Island,  Island  of,  purchase  by 

W.  Coddington,  71 
Richards,  John,  90 
Rogers,  J.,  92 
Russell,  James,  no 
Russell,  John,  133 
Russell,  Noadiah,  signature,  no 

S.,  H.,  92 

Sabbath,  13-15 

Saffin,  John,  82,  83 

Sale,  Mary  (Foster),  50,  51 


Salem,  Mass.,  Ill,  113 

Sandy  Hook,  international  yacht  race, 

29 

Savage,  James,  8 

Seakonk,  Mass.,  129 

Seal  of  the  Colony,  11,  12 

Sermon,  Artillery  Election,  81;  Election, 

69,  97,  98, 104;  Fast,  86 
Sewall,  Samuel,  13,  26«,  33;  autograph, 

95,  122 

Sewall,  Samuel,  notes  by,  1676,  62,  63 

Shamrock,  British  yacht,  29 

Shepard,  Jeremiah,  79 

Shepard,  Thomas,  33;  autograph,  69 

Sherman,  John,  74,  79 

Shores,  A.,  38 

Shorthand,  82,  106 

Sibley,  John  Langdon,  7,  25,  26,  35,  79 
Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  93 
Sign  of  the  Blew  Anchor,  Boston,  103 
Sign  of  the  Dove,  Boston,  65,  66 
Sign   of  the   Gilded   Acorn,  London, 
.15 

Simonds,  Thomas  C,  35 
"Sir,"  6,  7. 
Small-pox,  72,  117 
Somerby,  Henry,  signature,  79 
Springfield,  Mass.,  76 
Stoddard,  Anthony,  90 
Stone,  Edwin  Martin,  72 
Stoughton,  William,  51 
Street,  T.,  122 
Stubs,  John,  67,  68 
Sudbury,  Mass.,  76 
Synod,  1679,  100 

Taylor,  Edward,  79 

Thacher,  Oxenbridge,  signature,  89 

Thacher,  Thomas,  licenser  of  the  press, 

89 

Thursday  lecture,  Boston,  5,  27 
Tileston,  Thomas,  34,  35,  38-42 
Tompson,  Benjamin,  18,  74,  127,  129 
Topsfield,  Mass.,  34 
Torrey,  Samuel,  103 
Towns  in  New  England,  74 
Townsend,  Pen,  82 


Upham,  William  Phineas,  119 
Usher,  Mrs.  Bridget,  119 
Usher,  John,  34,  84,  85,  108 

Walter,  Arthur  Maynard,  9 
Wamesit  Indians,  76 
Ward,  N.,  92,  95 
Washacom  Ponds,  76 
White  Mountains,  17,  18 
Whiting,  John,  130,  132 
Willard,  Samuel,  129,  134 
"Winne,"  or  "Winni,"  18 


INDEX 

Winnebago,  18 
Winnepeg,  18 
Winnepesaukee,  Lake,  18 
Winnisimmet,  18 
Winslow,  Josiah,  71,  73,  74 
Winthrop,  Fitz-John,  126 
Winthrop,  John,  13,  125 
Winthrop,  John,  Jr.,  24,  125,  128 
Winthrop,  Wait,  letter  to  John,  13 
Woodbridge,  Benjamin,  92 
Woodbridge,  John,  92 


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